Re: Recompiling the kernel

["Ian Bonnycastle" <ibonny@gmail.com>]

Hi Cyril,

Sorry I'm coming back to this subject again, but the kfreebsd6-source package doesn't appear to have a "debian" directory under it, so there is no way to use the dpkg-buildpackage scripts with it. I'm going to have to resort to compiling the source code of the actual FreeBSD 
6.2 kernel, but I'm not sure where the BSD-aware tools are (I think they're under /usr/lib/freebsd, so I'll give that a try first.)

Is the fact that the kfreebsd-6.2 source package (the package, not the FreeBSD 
6.2 source code) is missing the debian directory an oversight, or on purpose?

Ian

On Nov 20, 2007 7:11 PM, Cyril Brulebois <cyril.brulebois@enst-bretagne.fr > wrote:

On 20/11/2007, Ian Bonnycastle wrote:
> Hi everyone,

Hello,

> I'm a new user to kFreeBSD, and I've been trying to figure out how to
> recompile the kernel. I downloaded the kFreeBSD-source package,
> compiled (with some difficulty) the config program under
> sys/usr.sbin/config, but then am stuck trying to use that config
> program. It currently keeps telling me:
>
> "no ident line specified"
>
> Am I supposed to be using a custom config with the kFreeBSD config
> command? Or is there a more automatic way to recompile the kernel?

I'm not sure whether you're talking about a FreeBSD tarball or about the
kfreebsd-source-* packages[1].

 1. http://packages.debian.org/kfreebsd-source

Using tools like "dpkg-buildpackage" or "debuild" should be sufficient
once you've fetched the debian source package, unpacked it, and possibly
customized it.

Good luck.

Cheers,

--
Cyril Brulebois