Re: How to hack a new kernel into a woody CD?

["David A. Greene" <greened@eecs.umich.edu>]

Osamu Aoki wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 04:51:03AM -0500, David A. Greene wrote:
> ...
>
> > Because bf2.4 was built without module versioning _and_ it was
> > built with a screwy version string _and_ there is no source
> > (that I know of) for it readily available to the casual Debian
> > user (please correct me if I'm wrong), I had to take drastic measures.
>
>
> I see package called kernel-image-2.4.18-i386bf
>
> $ apt-get build-dep kernel-image-2.4.18-i386bf
> $ apt-get source kernel-image-2.4.18-i386bf
> ... hack tree
> $ cd kernel-image-2.4.18-i386bf*
> $ debian/rules binary
>
> or something??? should work, as I see it.  What as the problem?

My mistake.  I was expecting a kernel-source-2.4.18-bf or something
like that.  Come to think of it, why _does_ Debian have kernel-source-*
packages if apt-get source kernel-image-* should work?

                     -Dave

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