Re: linux-image package /boot/config file not re-usable for acompilation of linux-source package
I'm not sure if I get you. Or if I said something that you missunderstood.
But YES, I know it's a lot of work. Just like anyother debian thing, I
guess. That's why I've been chosing debian almost from the beginning
(maybe even before you joined debian ?). Because everything is done "the
right way". And yes, I know and use make-kpkg. And I appreciate all the
debian people work.
Regards,
David
----- Original Message -----
> 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
>
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>
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