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Re: Problem with make--kpkg... no .deb package created!



*- On 17 Feb, Rich Hartman wrote about "Problem with make--kpkg... no .deb package created!"
> Hello all,
> 
> I just tried to compile 2.2.1 kernel and ran into a problem.... 
> Following the directions in 
> /usr/doc/kernel-source-2.2.1/debian.Readme, I installed the source 
> ..deb, make menuconfig, make-kpkg clean, then make-kpkg 
> --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image... this took a long time (about 30 
> minutes) and I got no error messages - everything seemed to go fine, 
> BUT the next step requires installing the newly created .deb package 
> with dpkg -i... trouble is, no .deb package is created by the 
> make-kpkg command.... so now I'm stuck half-way thru... any ideas?
> 
> Rich
> 
> 

You didn't specify were you looked for the package. You will be in the
kernel source directory when you make-kpkg and the package will be
placed in the parent directory of the kernel source.

i.e.  If you are in /usr/src/linux when you make-kpkg... then the
package will be in /usr/src.

-- 
Brian 
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