Re: make-kpkg

[Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org>]

>>>>> "Sean" == Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shalehperry@home.com> writes:

    >>  (3) i use a mixture of stable/unstable/testing. i figure that
    >> i have to compile everything on the lowest common denominator,
    >> so i use a stable machine. but i think that it is bad
    >> (performance, security) for me to run a kernel compiled on
    >> stable on a system that runs testing or unstable. is there a
    >> good way to use one system to compile for all three releases?
    >> 

    Sean> the kernel can be compiled anywhere it has no link to what
    Sean> it was built on.  The only possible problem would be dpkg
    Sean> version issues, which should not happen too often.

You are forgetting modutils, which is used to generate kernel symbols.
This means you have to build modules on stable if you build kernel on
stable.  Also, gcc version can matter but normally does not.