Re: How to hack a new kernel into a woody CD?

[Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>]

On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 05:29:02PM -0500, David A. Greene wrote:
> Osamu Aoki wrote:
> >On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 04:51:03AM -0500, David A. Greene wrote:
> >I see package called kernel-image-2.4.18-i386bf
> >
> >$ apt-get build-dep kernel-image-2.4.18-i386bf
> >$ apt-get source kernel-image-2.4.18-i386bf
> >... hack tree
> >$ cd kernel-image-2.4.18-i386bf*
> >$ debian/rules binary
> >
> >or something??? should work, as I see it.  What as the problem?
> 
> My mistake.  I was expecting a kernel-source-2.4.18-bf or something
> like that.  Come to think of it, why _does_ Debian have kernel-source-*
> packages if apt-get source kernel-image-* should work?

$ apt-cache showsrc kernel-image-2.4.18-bf2.4
Package: kernel-image-2.4.18-i386bf
Binary: kernel-image-2.4.18-bf2.4, kernel-headers-2.4.18-bf2.4
Version: 2.4.18-6
Privority: optional
Section: devel
Maintainer: John H. Robinson, IV <jaqque@debian.org>
Build-Depends: debhelper, modutils, kernel-source-2.4.18 (>= 2.4.18-5), kernel-package (>= 7.37)

So you need kernel-source-* as a Build-Depends. :) 

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