Forthcoming changes in kernel-package
Hi,
This is a heads up for a major change in kernel-package, the
tool to create user packaged kernel images and headers; which will
make the make-kpkg script far less error prone, and far more
deterministic.
a. Every invocation of kernel-package will remove ./debian directory,
and regenerate the changelog and control files. This will get rid
of any remaining issues with the ./debian directory getting out of
sync with the kernel sources; and will allow people to make small
tweaks to the kernel sources and have make-kpkg reflect those
changes.
b. make-kpkg will no longer have special case code to run boot
loaders and init ram fs creator invocations. Instead, it will pay
attention to scripts dropped into the directories
/etc/kernel/{src_,header_,}{pre,post}{inst,rm}.d/
This is far more flexible, and allows all kinds of packages to
drop in scripts there
c. his means there will be no need for /etc/kernel-img.conf file any
more.
d. The make-kpkg infrastructure will try to leverage the KBUILD
system far more than it has done in the past, which will make it
more robust against upstream kernel changes.
Since make-kpkg has been deprecated by the kernel team, and thei
advice has been to not use kernel package for kernel image building,
this should have no impact on official kernels.
manoj
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