Re: Kernel Recompile

[Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com>]

Russell Coker - mailing lists account <bofh@coker.com.au> wrote:
>   The only way to possibly cause problems is by manually recompiling
> the kernel not using make-kpkg and not removing the obsolete files
> from /lib/modules. If you choose to do that then you're operating
> totally outside the Debian system and it can't do anything to help
> you. Just don't do that.

This point of view isn't exactly well documented:

$ dpkg -L kernel-image-2.0.33 modutils | egrep '/(doc|man|info)/' | xargs zgrep -i make-kpkg
$ dpkg -l kernel-image-2.0.33 modutils
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name            Version        Description
+++-===============-==============-============================================
ii  kernel-image-2. 2.0.33-7       Linux kernel binary image.
ii  modutils        2.1.85-9       Linux module utilities.
$ dpkg -s kernel-image-2.0.33 modutils | grep make-kpkg
$ 

-- 
Raul


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