Subject: Re: kernel-package_2.02 uploaded to master

From: Manoj Srivastava <[email-masked]>
Date: 04 Aug 1996 03:27:49 -0400

Hi,
>>"Ricardo" == Ricardo Kleemann <[email-masked]> writes:
Ricardo> Hi! That's great! How does the kernel pkg work? Will it allow
Ricardo> you to build a specific kernel configuration or does it come
Ricardo> pre-configured?

	Well, kernel-package is an "installer" package; you download
 (or patch up) the Linux kernel source separately, configure it to
 your taste (make menuconfig in the kernel source directory works
 nicely), and then kernel-package springs in: make-kpkg kernel_image
 creates a kernel image with your customizations.

Ricardo> Does debian frequently update kernel versions (as 2.0.x is
Ricardo> still going thru its "stabilizing" phase)? What is the latest
Ricardo> version of the kernel that debian supports as a pkg?

	I think debian updates the kernel versions fairly frequently,
 though only versions that are relatively stable (so one doesn't get
 hit by a buggy version -- at least, that's the theory).

	manoj
-- 
 "Well, you see, it's such a transitional creature.  It's a piss-poor
 reptile and not very much of a bird." Melvin Konner, from "The
 Tangled Wing", quoting a zoologist who has studied the archeopteryz
 and found it "very much like people"
Manoj Srivastava               Systems Research Programmer, Project Pilgrim,
Phone: (413) 545-3918               A143B Lederle Graduate Research Center,
Fax:   (413) 545-3203         University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003
<[email-masked]> <URL:http://www.pilgrim.umass.edu/%7Esrivasta/>