If you are building a kernel for debian I recommend the debian kernel source and building the debian way. Its been a long time since I've done it, but Google should help. You could even grab the source package for the wheezy kernel and just build that.
Anton - Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http:// www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On Dec 16, 2011 4:31 PM, "Jan Henkins" <j...@henkins.za.net> wrote: > Hello Bob, > > OK, not running Debian (/me on *buntu, actually Mint 12 but that is pretty > much 11.10), but I did exactly what you want to do. I feel your pain, > Gentoo made this a lot easier. The portage system is just so much easier to > manipulate. > > Anyhow, I managed to grok a way to do this on MintBuntu. In principle it > should be similar enough to Debian, so here is what I did - > > * Pinned all my kernel packages by adding the following fragment to the > bottom my /etc/apt/preferences file: > > ---start--- > Package: linux-firmware > Pin: release o=Ubuntu > Pin-Priority: -10 > > Package: linux-generic > Pin: release o=Ubuntu > Pin-Priority: -10 > > Package: linux-image-* > Pin: release o=Ubuntu > Pin-Priority: -10 > > Package: linux-headers-* > Pin: release o=Ubuntu > Pin-Priority: -10 > > Package: linux-libc-dev > Pin: release o=Ubuntu > Pin-Priority: -10 > ---end--- > > Note: You will have to research the "Pin" entry a bit to ensure that you > put something sensible in there for Debian. > > * Then I downloaded the 3.1.5 kernel sources from kernel.org, > * made sure that the source is in /usr/src/linux-3.1.5, > * created a kernel config (see [1]) > * did a "make all ; make modules_install ; make install" > * made sure that "make install" inserted the right bits in my grub.conf > * rebooted! :-) > > The pinning ensures that I can now update the system without having to be > scared that my kernel will get clobbered. > > Footnote [1]: > > As with building your kernel source on Gentoo, you will have to start the > process with a kernel config. I simply copied my 3.0.0-13 running kernel > config from "/boot/config-3.0.0-13-**generic" to > "/usr/src/linux-3.1.5/.config"**, and rebuilt the config with a "make > oldconfig" before I started the "make all" bits. Since a lot of things have > changed from 3.0.0 to 3.1.5, "make oldconfig" will ask you what to do for > all the newer kernel options. In this particular case I simply accepted the > defaults, which seems to work for me. Incidentally I tried the same for > kernel 3.2-rc5, but my wireless is not working (I probably need to > reconfigure the kernel again with "make menuconfig" and rebuild it). > > Also one last tip: make sure you edit the kernel source Makefile and add > your bit to the "EXTRAVERSION" line. Mine looks like this: > > ---start--- > VERSION = 3 > PATCHLEVEL = 1 > SUBLEVEL = 5 > EXTRAVERSION = -jh1 > NAME = "Divemaster Edition" > ---end--- > > Let me know if you want my 3.1.5 kernel config file, and I will mail it to > you. > > Hope this helps! :-) > > On 16/12/11 15:57, hants...@googlemail.com wrote: > >> On Friday 16 December 2011 15:33:54 Bob Dunlop wrote: >> >>> Is there a way to upgrade a single package? On Gentoo this is trivially >>> easy. >>> >> Have you tried Squeeze backports, Bob? >> >> http://backports-master.**debian.org/Instructions/<http://backports-master.debian.org/Instructions/> >> >> It works great for any packages that are there. I did search for a 3.x >> kernel, using various terms and couldn't find one. If the kernel you >> want is >> in Wheezy, I am surprised if it is not in backports and my search >> abilitites >> fade with my eyesight. >> But you can, by pinning, use just named packages form Wheezy. I have not >> tried this and can therefore not tell you how, but it seems to be >> eminently >> doable by the competant! >> >> The Debian users list would be a good place to ask. There are some real >> experts on pinning there. But tell them what you want to achieve. There >> may >> be a more debianised way of doing it. >> >> http://lists.debian.org/ >> >> HTH >> Lisi >> >> -- >> Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk >> Web Interface: >> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/**mailman/listinfo/hampshire<https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire> >> LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk >> ------------------------------**------------------------------**-- >> > > > -- > > Regards, > Jan Henkins > > > -- > Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk > Web Interface: > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/**mailman/listinfo/hampshire<https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire> > LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk > ------------------------------**------------------------------**-- >
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