Re: [gNewSense-users] A New Kernel

[Karl Goetz]

On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 18:30:47 +0000
Aurélien DESBRIÈRES <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi both,
Please at least make sure your packages are lintian clean. I see there
is no tarball/dsc file, so i assume these packages were not compiled
from a source package but rather from something like checkinstall.
This would be good to fix if you want them provided by something like
fsfla.

> On Sat, 2010-09-11 at 09:21 -0700, Jason Self wrote:
> > I wanted to share a kernel that I compiled [1]. It's newer than the
> > one provided at [2], which is where the community normally seems to
> > refer people to get a newer kernel for gNewSense.

> > Please enjoy. I'd appreciate any feedback.

14:01:53 address@hidden: /tmp/mistakenbear.org $ file *
linux-headers-2.6.32.21-libre1_i386.deb: current ar archive
linux-image-2.6.32.21-libre1_i386.deb:   current ar archive
linux-source-2.6.32.21-libre1_all.deb:   current ar archive

Are you sure these packages are valid?

sudo dpkg -i linux-source-2.6.32.21-libre1_all.deb
[sudo] password for kgoetz:
dpkg-deb: file `linux-source-2.6.32.21-libre1_all.deb' is not a debian
binary archive (try dpkg-split?)
dpkg: error processing linux-source-2.6.32.21-libre1_all.deb
(--install):
 subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 linux-source-2.6.32.21-libre1_all.deb

> Hi,
> 
> You can find the since the 30 june 2010 the 2.6.34.deb libre one at :
> http://www.fscorsica.org/kernel-en.html
> 
> made from fsfla.org sources

13:59:00 address@hidden: /tmp/fscorsica.org $ lintian * |wc -l
1311
kk

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Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS)
Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer
http://www.kgoetz.id.au
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