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From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@frijolero.org>
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 17:19:52 -0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] compat: add compat kernel checker and downloader
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On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 8:56 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@frijolero.org> wrote:
> Come to think of it.. we could bastardize Ubuntu's PPA packages for
> mainline kernels, translate the deb packages into tar files and some
> sort of grub-update or whatever scrip to run in the end? That still
> seems like a lot of work.
>
> The current option allows us to use either distro kernels or whatever
> you have installed.. not sure how else to improve this. Didn't we have
> some sort of distro agnostic package crap? Maybe?

Or -- Andy -- any chance we can get some of the deb contents unpacked
into a distro-agostic tarball of some sort that we can use ? I ask
given that you guys already host the sources and all that.

  Luis