Re: Updated Howto needed: How to compile a kernel like etch's.

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 07:43:18PM +0000, Nick Hill wrote:
> Hello Jurij
> 
> Thank you for this. I will look through the book, try out the commands 
> on sarge and etch and report back to you my findings.
> 
> Horms,
> Thank you for the summary. You have made the versioned patching system 
> clearer to me. I tried the commands you suggested to build the kernel. I 
> have had package versioning problems trying to compile etch kernel on 
> sarge ( gcc (>= 4:4.0) kernel-package (>= 9.008.3) ). When I override 
> (-d) it appears there is no .config file. I don't know whether that is 
> because kernel-package <=9.008.3 fails to create .config.

kernel-package 9.008.x have absolutely no effect on what you are mentioning,
the only and exclusive change was to the post/pre inst/rm script to handle the
ramdisk field in kernel-img.conf, nothing more.

Friendly,

Sven Luther