[gobolinux-devel] [gobolinux-users] New kernel package

[Jonas Karlsson]

2007/2/7, Lucas C. Villa Real <lucasvr at gobolinux.org>:
> Hello again,
>
> A new binary package for the Linux kernel has just been uploaded,
> together with its recipe. This time, the package's tarball also
> include the minimal source code needed to compile extra modules. An
> updated script has been written to deal with the compression and
> installation of these kernel images, too. Both files can be downloaded
> from the following locations:
>
> KernelPackage script: http://gobolinux.org/download/kernel/KernelPackage
> Compressed tarball:
> http://gobolinux.org/download/kernel/Linux--2.6.20-Gobo--kernel-i686.tar.bz2
>
> In order to install the binary kernel image, just run the following
> command as super-user:
>     ./KernelPackage --install Linux--2.6.20-Gobo--kernel-i686.tar.bz2
>
Very nice addition!
But I think that the package should be split into two. One for the
image and one for the source (perhaps one for both). Because not all
users want to compile their own kernel modules and then downloading
the source is unnecessary.
For users compiling kernel modules, installing the source package
shouldn't be any more work as there's easy functionallity to do that
and one could even add an option to the recipe with the module that
the compilation requires the kernel sources and the script is called
to install the correct sources, unless already present (this last is
Lucas own idea, but I wrote it here as it helps my cause :) )

-- 
/Jonas