[Voyage-linux] Documenting package changes from debian orig version in Wiki

[Punky Tse]

Beat,

pebble is based on Debian woody while voyage is based on sarge.  So almost all packages used by them 
are mostly different.  You can find the package list used by voyage in /voyage.dpkg-l.

kernel patch : I keep all patches for every kernel built.  They are all available at 
http://www.voyage.hk/download/kernel_patch/2.6/.  And yes, they diff against the corresponding 
debian kernel.  But I heard that someone were able to apply these patches against the stock kernel 
as well.

Punky

Beat Meier wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I've just  upgrade from pebble to voyage.
> Nice!
> 
> What I realy miss by all distros is what packages were modified from the 
> original distro.
> It woult be nice to document in Wiki which packages are created or 
> modified from
> the original version. Also which kernel patches were applied.
> 
> For example gcc- was modified because of dependencies i..e. almost 
> everything
> in this package wad deleted ...
> I think it's not much work (only the author knows (hopefully) which 
> packages
> were modified but the help is realy great for developers/contributors.
> 
> The problem comes for example if you want to install kernels form 
> kernerl.org
> You cannot diff the sources because the use kernel sources from voyage base
> on the debian kernel which have already modifed the sources.
> So if the author say: I have aplied the IMQ patch from XXX we can
> do the same with the stock kernel from kernerl.org.
> 
> More imported even which modules do you have to recompile if you want 
> use your own
> kernel like for example madwifi -> hostapd, wpa_supplicant etc.
> 
> So peopple can use the distro and upgrade or use the kernel they MUST use
> for some constraints.
> 
> BTW: Is there any docu from debian which packages are incompatible with
> using kernel 2.6 instead of 2.4?
> 
> In the future I will send some stuff (Skripts/changes) about wrap which 
> could be intgrated
> if you have interess.
> 
> Greetings and thanks
> 
> Beat
> 
> 
> 
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