r3765 - trunk/kernel/source/linux-2.6/debian

[Jurij Smakov]

Author: jurij-guest
Date: 2005-08-09 01:01:41 +0000 (Tue, 09 Aug 2005)
New Revision: 3765

Modified:
   trunk/kernel/source/linux-2.6/debian/README
Log:
README update: generation of control files.


Modified: trunk/kernel/source/linux-2.6/debian/README
===================================================================
--- trunk/kernel/source/linux-2.6/debian/README	2005-08-09 00:54:23 UTC (rev 3764)
+++ trunk/kernel/source/linux-2.6/debian/README	2005-08-09 01:01:41 UTC (rev 3765)
@@ -43,8 +43,13 @@
 ------------
 The master control file debian/control must be generated before
 the package is uploaded. debian/rules contains the debian/control 
-target, which generates the control file by concatenating the 
-common templates for it and substituting the variables:
+target, which generates the control file by invoking the 
+debian/bin/gencontrol.py script, which combines the templates from
+the templates directory and arch/subarch specific defines file to
+produce the debian/control file. Note that this target is intentionally
+made to fail with a non-zero exit code to make sure that it is never
+run during an automatic build. The following variables are substituted
+into the templates:
 
 @version@      Upstream kernel version, for example 2.6.11.
 @major@        The major version, for example 2.6
@@ -69,20 +74,9 @@
 @allheaders@   Given the arch, a list of all the linux-headers packages for the
                arch - used for kernel-headers-x.y.z-n-arch.
 
-For each kernel image build the control.source.in template from
-templates directory is concatenated with the control.in file from the
-arch/<arch> or arch/<arch>/<subarch> directory, and the following
-variables are substituted: @version@, @ltver@, @major@, @abiname at .
-A arch/subarch-specific control.in file should contain only entries
-for binary linux-image-$(version)-$(abiname)-$(flavour) and
-flavour-specific linux-headers-$(version)-$(abiname)-$(flavour)
-packages. linux-headers-$(version)-$(abiname) package entry is
-included automatically.
+Normally, the arch-specific contents should be controlled by
+adjusting the corresponding defines file.
 
-After variable substitution the resulting files are formatted to
-ensure that the only blank lines are the ones separating the
-entries (i.e. before the next Package: line).
-
 Makefile.inc
 ------------
 Each architecture subdirectory in arch may contain a Makefile.inc