Package: kernel-source-2.6.11 Version: 2.6.11-7 Severity: wishlist I wanted to rebuild a kernel-image package starting with the same .config in the official Debian packages. One way to do this is to install the kernel-image package, which contains it in /boot/config-XXX, but it's annoying to install a huge kernel-image package you're just going to replace. It took me a good while to notice that the .config file is also in the kernel-headers package (obvious in retrospect), in /usr/src/kernel-headers-XXX/.config. That's also a big download for just that file, though I already happened to have it installed. Finally, I discovered that the kernel-image _source_ package is (contrary to intuition) a tiny little thing containing little other than the .configs.
I would suggest either copying the .configs into the kernel-source package, or putting clear documentation into the kernel-source package, say in README.Debian: If you want to start with the same kernel .config used in the official Debian kernel-image package, get it from the _source_ package for the relevant kernel-image (don't worry, it's a small download). BTW, the kernel-headers-2.6.11-1 package contains /usr/share/doc/kernel-headers-2.6.11-1/config-2.6.11-1.gz matching /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.6.11-1/.config; however the kernel-headers-2.6.11-1-686 contains no such file in /usr/share/doc. Is that intentional? Andrew -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages kernel-source-2.6.11 depends on: ii binutils 2.15-7 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii bzip2 1.0.2-7 high-quality block-sorting file co ii coreutils [fileutils] 5.2.1-2 The GNU core utilities Versions of packages kernel-source-2.6.11 recommends: ii gcc 4:3.3.6-1 The GNU C compiler ii libc6-dev [libc-dev] 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Development Librari ii make 3.80-9 The GNU version of the "make" util -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]