Re: [#599018 debian-faq] Section 10 (Debian and the kernel) is woefully out of date
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Holger Wansing <linux@wansing-online.de> wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm looking to work on this long standing bug against debian-faq:
> > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=599018
> > >
> > > I would appreciate a review, since the bugreport is more than 5 years old:
> > > is this all still relevant/true ?
> > >
> > >
> > > Quoting the bug submitter:
> > >
> > > 10.1: The libc kernel headers are no longer in libc6-dev; they're in
> > > linux-libc-dev.
> > >
> > > 10.2: The recommended way to compile the kernel into a Debian package is
> > > now to just run "make pkg-deb" after configuring it. kernel-package is
> > > no longer used for the official kernel packages, and tends to be overly
> > > complex.
> > >
> > > 10.4: modconf and /etc/modules.conf are deprecated and shouldn't
> > > actually get used anymore. The list of modules at boot-time is still
> > > /etc/modules but it rarely needs to be touched. Module-specific
> > > configuration is now done in /etc/modprobe.d.
> >
> > Since the patch provided with the bugreport does no longer apply cleanly,
> > because some involved text has already been removed, I prepared a new
> > patch, attached.
>
> If noone objects, I will commit that in the next one or two weeks.
Just committed.
Thanks
Holger
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