Re: Kernel build with kpkg (was Install of VMware)

2000-09-23 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Tom Hoover wrote: > Is there any advantage to building the kernel outside of fakeroot? The fakeroot man page says quite clearly that "Thou shall never configure a anything under fakeroot", so I try to only do the install targets under fakeroot to avoid hard-to-track problems.

Re: Kernel build with kpkg (was Install of VMware)

2000-09-23 Thread Tom Hoover
On Sat, Sep 23, 2000 at 06:57:48PM -0300, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > > I don't know. What I could suggest you to do is this: > > make-kpkg --revision... build > fakeroot make -f debian/rules kernel-image-deb > fakeroot make-kpkg modules_image > > The above sequence has never failed me. It buil

Re: Kernel build with kpkg (was Install of VMware)

2000-09-23 Thread Tom Hoover
On Sat, Sep 23, 2000 at 07:11:23PM -0300, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > > > Am I misreading the docs? > > I don't know. What I could suggest you to do is this: > > Well, now I know. The make-kpkg man page makes it very clear that the only > target

Re: Kernel build with kpkg (was Install of VMware)

2000-09-23 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > > Am I misreading the docs? > I don't know. What I could suggest you to do is this: Well, now I know. The make-kpkg man page makes it very clear that the only target which knows how to deal with rootcmd is buildpackage. I never use it, though. I

Re: Kernel build with kpkg (was Install of VMware)

2000-09-23 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Tom Hoover wrote: > I've successfully built a new kernel package with make-kpkg, but only if I > use: > > fakeroot -- make-kpkg --revision=custom.X.XX. kernel_image I'll usually run fakeroot make-kpkg ... I've never needed that -- > Am I misreading the docs?