On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 8:56 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Come to think of it.. we could bastardize Ubuntu's PPA packages for >>> mainline kernels, translate the deb packages into tar files and some >>> sort of grub-update or whatever scrip to run in the end? That still >>> seems like a lot of work. >>> >>> The current option allows us to use either distro kernels or whatever >>> you have installed.. not sure how else to improve this. Didn't we have >>> some sort of distro agnostic package crap? Maybe? >> >> Or -- Andy -- any chance we can get some of the deb contents unpacked >> into a distro-agostic tarball of some sort that we can use ? I ask >> given that you guys already host the sources and all that. > > Just to not waste anyone's time it seems pkgadd from IRC has a > distro-agnostic dpkg -x type of solution in the works, that could use > these same debs. > > http://paste.debian.net/155521/ Disclaimer: (no error handling) 02:57 < pkgadd> and no support for different compression methods that gzip for now (Debian is using xz for >= 3.2 kernel packages) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
