Re: What is a Kernel?
Moshe Zadka <moshez@math.huji.ac.il> writes:
> I'm not getting through here, apparently. I realize that people need
> to compile their own kernel. My problem is that the packaging system
> is organized such that you have to cheat it to use a self-compiled kernel.
> You're telling it no kernel is installed, while you sneak off and install
> your kernel without it knowing about it. Then you lose: the kernel
> is outside the packaging system, and the kernel is a very important
> software package.
You don't understand make-kpkg at all. It builds a kernel (from
whatever source you like, maybe from the kernel-source package, and
maybe just something you downloaded) and then it makes a .deb for that
kernel which is a clean substitute for the kernel-image package.
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