On Monday 18 July 2005 07:43 pm, Doofus wrote: > The debian reference manual says there are two ways, the debian standard > method: > > http://www.uk.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-kernel.en.html#s-kernel-d >ebian > > and the classic method: > > http://www.uk.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-kernel.en.html#s-kernel-c >lassic > > where the first uses a kernel deb package and lots of nice > debian-make-it-simple utilities, while the second uses the method > outlined in the documentation distributed with the kernels source. > > Is there any reason not to combine the two methods, ie download the > latest 2.4 from kernel.org (which I want), but use "make-kpkg clean" and > "make-kpkg kernel_image" (which I like)? > > Thanks
Nope, just get the latest source, extract and configure it, then run 'fakeroot make-kpkg kernel_image' and you'll get a kernel-image...deb file -- you don't even need to do 'make-kpkg clean' first if you don't want to. I'm happily doing this for various patchsets against 2.6 and 2.6 mainline on a number of computers with no problems. -- Ryan Schultz -> floating point exception: divide by cucumber -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]