Re: [Gnewsense-dev] linux-2.6

[dww]

Regarding question 2. I got
'patch -p1 < ../linux-2.6_2.6.32-48squeeze4.diff' to do the job.

Dennis

On Tue, 2014-03-25 at 21:29 -0400, dww wrote:
> Sam
> 
> I was trying to compare the files in linux-2.6 between parkes and
> squeeze to learn more about what is different in that case.
> 
> For squeeze I went to
> https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/linux-2.6
> and there were two source files at the bottom of the page.
> linux-2.6_2.6.32.orig.tar.gz and linux-2.6_2.6.32-48squeeze4.diff.gz.
> 
> The former contained the source files from upstream as usual. However
> the latter was the debian directory though in the form of a diff file
> rather than the source which seems the usual case for most packages. So
> the latter contained content like:
> 
> --- linux-2.6-2.6.32.orig/debian/templates/image.plain.bug/include-usb
> +++ linux-2.6-2.6.32/debian/templates/image.plain.bug/include-usb
> @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
> +add_usb() {
> +  echo '** USB devices:' >&3
> +  lsusb >&3 2>/dev/null || echo 'not available' >&3
> +  echo >&3
> +}
> +
> +ask_usb() {
> +  # This information shouldn't vary much between kernel versions, so
> +  # include it anyway.
> +  test $same_system = nop || add_usb 
> +}
> 
> Questions:
> 
> 1. Why did they use the diff file format rather than regular source in a
> tar ball?
> Wheezy did it in the usual way with files linux_3.2.54.orig.tar.xz and
> linux_3.2.54-2.debian.tar.xz
> 2. Is there a tool (and command line) to convert the diff file to actual
> source (debian directory and subdirectories)?
> 
> Thanks
> Dennis