Re: kernel-package??
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 09:24:43AM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote:
> I'm looking to start using my own custom kernels for various reasons. At this
> point I'm just researching the various options or ways in going about this and
> in the process installed kernel-package. I learned the hard way a couple years
> ago when I first started using Linux that before diving into documentation I
> first need to try to determine it's age. So after installing kernel-package the
> first thing I did was go to the bottom of the man page and looked at the date,
> May 25, 1999! Now I realize that is not necessarily the date of the last
> update but this doesn't give me a good feeling about diving into it's details
> that could be 10 years old. So is it better to just use an upstream source
> from kernel.org and build that or will that only create more work trying to
> get that running with a current Debian distro? I'm certainly not looking for a
> detailed howto on this list, but looking for advise on the road to take to get
> there. Or at least the road with more pros than cons. Thanks, Randy
>
>
Just fyi, kernel-package isn't a kernel itself; it's the tools used to
build a vanilla kernel (like the ones from kernel.org) into a deb file.
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