On 9/25/2011 2:42 AM, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
* Stephen Powell [110924 14:13 -0400]:
On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 12:18:47 -0400 (EDT), Camaleón wrote:
What do you mean by "kernel-package"? Debian's vanilla kernel?
"kernel-package" is the name of a Debian package, as in
aptitude install kernel-package
Isn't [1] the proper way to build Debian kernels?
[1] http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-common-tasks.html
As has already been discussed, this is the "new" recommended way to
build a Debian kernel. The instructions on that page 'silently' changed
not terribly that long ago. The build instructions on that page used to
tell us to use 'make-kpkg'. Note that this new method
make KDEB_PKGVERSION=custom.1.0 deb-pkg
did not exist in the days of 2.6.18 to 2.6.21, which is when these
command line examples were written. IIRC this deb-pkg method was
introduced in kernel 2.6.32 or 2.6.34. It is included in the pristine
kernel kernel source tarball. Thus you don't have to install any Debian
kernel building packages on your system in order to build a custom
kernel. This is likely one of the reasons this is the recommended
method now, since most everything you need is in the vanilla tarball.
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Stan
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