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

[Beat Meier]

Punky Tse wrote:

> 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.
>
Ok missunderstanding: I have use until yet a modified pebble version.
Now I've installed voyage ...

> 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.
>
Yes thats what I do now.
What I see is that you have not applied IMQ patch for example which is
almost a must
for traffic shapping.

Ok will have a look at the patches in
http://www.voyage.hk/download/kernel_patch/2.6/

Thanks

Beat

> Punky
>
> Beat Meier wrote:
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>> 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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