[PATCH 1/1] UBUNTU: add -virtual flavour

Andy Whitcroft apw at canonical.com
Fri Jun 6 16:09:50 UTC 2014


Note that currently this flavour is a bit of a charade in that there
is no -extras split in the backports.  The main purpose is to drop the
unnecessary dependancy on the linux-firmware package.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw at canonical.com>
---
 meta-source/debian/changelog         |  3 +++
 meta-source/debian/control.d/virtual | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 40 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 meta-source/debian/control.d/virtual

diff --git a/meta-source/debian/changelog b/meta-source/debian/changelog
index a0bba93..ed6bba4 100644
--- a/meta-source/debian/changelog
+++ b/meta-source/debian/changelog
@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ linux-meta-lts-trusty (3.13.0.29.26) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
   * update meta package descriptions
     Replace "13.10" with "14.04 LTS" in descriptions of Trusty packages.
     -LP: #1324886
+  * add a -virtual flavour pointing to the same packages as -generic
+    but without the linux-firmware dependancies.
+    - LP: #1327208
 
  -- Tim Gardner <tim.gardner at canonical.com>  Fri, 30 May 2014 14:36:40 +0200
 
diff --git a/meta-source/debian/control.d/virtual b/meta-source/debian/control.d/virtual
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..07186f8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-source/debian/control.d/virtual
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+Package: linux-headers-virtual-lts-trusty
+Architecture: i386 amd64 armhf
+Section: devel
+Priority: optional
+Depends: ${misc:Depends}, linux-headers-${kernel-abi-version}-generic
+Description: Generic Linux kernel headers
+ This package will always depend on the latest virtual 14.04 LTS kernel headers
+ available.
+
+Package: linux-image-virtual-lts-trusty
+Architecture: i386 amd64 armhf
+Section: metapackages
+Priority: optional
+Depends: ${misc:Depends}, linux-image-${kernel-abi-version}-generic
+Description: Generic Linux kernel image
+ This package will always depend on the latest virtual 14.04 LTS kernel image
+ available.
+
+Package: linux-tools-virtual-lts-trusty
+Architecture: i386 amd64 armhf
+Section: metapackages
+Priority: optional
+Provides: linux-tools
+Depends: ${misc:Depends}, linux-tools-${kernel-abi-version}-generic
+Description: Generic Linux kernel tools
+ This package will always depend on the latest virtual 14.04 LTS kernel tools
+ available.
+
+Package: linux-virtual-lts-trusty
+Architecture: i386 amd64 armhf
+Section: metapackages
+Priority: optional
+Depends: ${misc:Depends}, linux-image-virtual-lts-trusty, linux-headers-virtual-lts-trusty
+Description: Generic Linux kernel image and headers
+ This package will always depend on the latest virtual 14.04 LTS kernel image
+ and headers packages available.
+
-- 
1.9.1





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