[Techtalk] Kernel Building (was Re: Simply Hardware 3B)

[hobbit at aloss.ukuu.org.uk]

On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 12:23:55PM +1000 or thereabouts, Carolyn Hicks wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 11:03:09AM +0100, hobbit at aloss.ukuu.org.uk wrote:
> > _If you are on Debian_, (don't think you are? But I want to know 
> > the answer myself), there is a Debian Way to build kernels. 
> 
> That would be make-kpkg. Works much like the Redhat method - you download
> and unpack the sources, run 'make menuconfig', then do
> 
> make-kpkg --revision Custom.foo kernel_image
> 
> where 'foo' is a revision number you can set yourself. 
> 
> This creates a package called kernel-image-X.X.XX_Custom.foo_i386.deb, and
> puts it in /usr/src (not the kernel source directory you're in, so don't
> waste as much time as I have looking for it there). Running dpkg --install
> on this package sets up the new kernel in /boot and tells lilo about it.
> 
> make-kpkg can also create .deb packages for kernel headers, doc and
> sources, and has many other scary-looking options :)

Whee. This is even better than 'make rpm', because the rpm one
still requires you to update your bootloader yourself, I think.

Telsa