On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 10:34 -0500, David McGiven wrote: > Dear Debian users, > > I'm using Debian Sarge in one of my machines. I wanted to install a newer > kernel (Sarge comes with 2.6.8). > > Instead of using the kernel.org vanilla kernel source package, I decided > that using the debian source package from testing would be better. > > I downloaded it from : > http://packages.debian.org/testing/devel/linux-source-2.6.15 > > I installed it and it drops a file in /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.15.tar.bz2 > > I extracted it. Then instead of configuring it, I wanted to be it the > debian way. > > I then downloaded the debian binary package from testing from : > http://packages.debian.org/testing/base/linux-image-2.6.15-1-686-smp > > I do this just to take the .config file and be able to do a make oldconfig > afterwards. > > I extracted the contents of linux-image-2.6.15-1-686-smp_2.6.15-8_i386.deb > > dpkg-deb -x linux-image-2.6.15-1-686-smp_2.6.15-8_i386.deb /tmp > > I copied the config file to the source directory > > cp /tmp/boot/config-2.6.15-1-686-smp /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.15 > > cd /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.15 > > make oldconfig > > And now it asks me for HEAPS of questions. > > How is this possible ? The config file that comes with the binary package > is supposed to be from the same version as the kernel source package. Why > it asks those questions about old and new config parameters then ? > > Thanks in advance. Given that I have rebuilt the debian kernels many times, making it so could include patches the old patch way...(back when the *COOL* patches were pre-empt and a few other neat things, around the 2.4.20 era) I don't know if you know it, but there is a tremendous amount of work that has been done in making it possible for you to do just what you want to do. There are some issues that need to be ironed out, but in general I use: make-kpkg maintained by Manoj Srivastava. Excellent Excellent package. I'd investigate this avenue if I were you. -- greg, greg@gregfolkert.net The technology that is Stronger, Better, Faster: Linux Use Debian GNU/Linux, its a bazaar thing NOTICE: Due to Presidential Executive Orders, the National Security Agency may have read this email without warning, warrant, or notice, and certainly without probable cause. They may do this without any judicial or legislative oversight. You have no recourse nor protection.
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