Kernel maintiain tools — Ketchup

1. http://www.selenic.com/ketchup/ download. As I tested, now only version 0.9.5 works.
http://www.selenic.com/ketchup/wiki/

2. ketchup -l : list all supported kernel trees. ( like 2.6, 2.6-mm, 2.6-rt, 2.6-git)
ketchup -s 2.6:  list the latest version of 2.6 stable tree.

ketchup -G 2.6.15.1 : update your kernel (in current directory) to 2.6.15.1, without pgp verify.

3. commands works in a existing kernel folder:
ketchup -m : show current kernel version (actually from the Makefile)
ketchup 2.6-rt : switch to another tree.
ketchup 2.6-tip : update to the latest release.
ketchup 2.6.11-rc3 : Downgrade to a particular release.
ketchup -s 2.6-mm : show latest version of a particular tree.
ketchup -u 2.6-mm : Find the URL for a given version. (find the bz2 package).

-n –dry-run
don’t download or apply patches
-p –show-previous
output version previous to <arg>

4. We can also use ~/.ketchuprc to maintain a localtree. TBD.
It can be used with quilt . TBD.

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