Bug#704116: kernel-package: [make-kpkg] manpage not uptodate
Package: kernel-package
Version: 12.036+nmu3
Severity: minor
I am using Kubuntu 12.10 32bit in a german version.
The manpage (german) of make-kpkg is from 2002 and have one wrong and some
incomplete informations.
I am not sure but I think the english version of the manpage has the same
state.
1. wrong information
The man-page tell that there is a need to run make-kpkg as root (what is extrem
risky!), with fakeroot or to tell him by parameter how to become (fakeroot)
root.
I tested it myself. From userside there is no need to tell make-kpkg how to
become root or to run it as (fake)root. Because make-kpkg handle it for itself.
I checked it. All files in my created deb are with root-rights without running
make-kpkg as (fake)root. And I was able to install the deb without any errors.
Just cancle this information.
2. missing and incomplite configuration
Two usual usecases for make-kpkg:
a) The configuration of the kernel is completely missing.
b) The configuration is from an older kernel-version and some new-options there
are unset. So the config is incomplete.
How does make-kpkg behave in such situations? The man-page-described behaviour
is unclear and maybe wrong. (I need more time to test it myself.)
The author or code-maintainer should be contacted to clearing this questions
and bring the man-page to a real state.
Because of missunderstandig the communication ways I opened a similary bug-
report on the Ubuntu-BugTracking-System "lunchpad".
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gst-plugins-ugly0.10/+bug/1160735>
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers quantal-updates
APT policy: (500, 'quantal-updates'), (500, 'quantal-security'), (500,
'quantal-proposed'), (500, 'quantal'), (100, 'quantal-backports')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.5.0-27-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages kernel-package depends on:
ii binutils 2.22.90.20120924-0ubuntu2
ii build-essential 11.5ubuntu3
ii debianutils 4.3.4
ii file 5.11-2
ii gettext 0.18.1.1-9ubuntu1
ii make 3.81-8.2ubuntu2
ii module-init-tools 3.16-1ubuntu6
ii po-debconf 1.0.16+nmu2ubuntu1
ii util-linux 2.20.1-5.1ubuntu2
Versions of packages kernel-package recommends:
ii cpio 2.11-8ubuntu3
Versions of packages kernel-package suggests:
pn btrfs-tools <none>
ii bzip2 1.0.6-4
pn docbook-utils <none>
ii e2fsprogs 1.42.5-1ubuntu2
pn grub | grub2 <none>
ii initramfs-tools [linux-initramfs-tool] 0.103ubuntu0.2
pn jfsutils <none>
ii libncurses5-dev [libncurses-dev] 5.9-10ubuntu1
ii linux-source 3.5.0.27.43
ii linux-source-3.5.0 [linux-source] 3.5.0-27.46
pn mcelog <none>
pn oprofile <none>
ii pcmciautils 018-8
ii ppp 2.4.5-5ubuntu2
ii procps 1:3.3.3-2ubuntu3
pn quota <none>
pn reiserfsprogs <none>
pn squashfs-tools <none>
ii udev 175-0ubuntu13
pn xfsprogs <none>
ii xmlto 0.0.25-2
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