Hi, Today (ahem, yesterday actually) I tried to build new boot floppies with new kernel images from 2.2.19pre13. This was the first time I tried to recompile all those kernel-image packages together with the module packages for them. I have to say - that was a sad experience. Either I am totally dumb or it is a major effort to compile those packages each time a new upstream is released. What is the right way of doing that? I installed kernel-source-2.2.19pre13, used apt-get source to install the source of the 2.2.18pre21 kernel images and tweaked the files in the debian directory. So far so good - I was able to build the kernel-image-2.2.19pre13* packages with small problems (namely the FLAVOUR change in the kernel Makefile of the latest kernel-source package). But: How do I now build the pcmcia-modules and all the other module packages? The way I finally did it is to go to the build directory of each kernel and run make-pkg --flavour foo modules_image for each of the flavours. This becomes funny with the -ide image since it is built by the kernel-image-i386 package in the same place as the vanilla kernel - so I had to rebuild that package and stop it in the middle to do the modules then let it build the ide flavour and again build the modules. Not exactly very user friendly. Am I too dumb or is this the way things actually work? Thanks Torsten
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