Re: rebuild kernel and modules
Your story is right if you install kernel-images, not if, like I always
do, download source code untar and gunzip it and ...
On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Gary Hennigan wrote:
> Ron Rademaker <ron@wep.tudelft.nl> writes:
> > How are you guys compiling your kernel???
> > Why don't you 'just' config the thing and do:
> > make dep && make clean && make bzImage && make modules && make
> > modules_install
> >
> > After that, simply edit your /etc/lilo.conf, run lilo and add your modules
> > using modprobe or insmod (you could also use modconf) and done.....
> >
> > No package needed (except of course for gcc and all that....)
>
> The main reason NOT to do that is that it confuses Debian package
> management. For example, suppose you install kernel-image-2.2.13-2
> from your favorite Debian mirror, but then decide you want to
> customize it so you use your method. You install it, as you stated,
> and you're off to the races. Now suppose the kernel maintainer finds a
> bug and decides to install a patch and releases
> kernel-image-2.2.13-3. 'apt-get upgrade' dutifully notices this and
> upgrades your kernel-image. BAM! Your custom kernel and all the
> changes are wiped in one fell swoop. Of course you could manually put
> the kernel-image-2.2.13-2 on hold, but that's not really what's
> installed on your system, since you bypassed Debian's package
> management.
>
> This is one of the reasons for the kernel-package package. With it you
> assign your own version number for the kernel image and it can live
> quite nicely with any of the stock kernel-image files you wish to
> keep and won't be overwritten when the stock kernel-image gets
> upgraded.
>
> In addition, make-kpkg automates many, if not all, of the steps you
> give above. I simply do a 'make menuconfig', 'make-kpkg ...',
> 'dpkg -i kernel-image-whatever' and it prompts me for the necessary
> changes to /etc/lilo.conf and asks me if I want to run lilo, etc.
>
> make-kpkg is a nice piece of software, and IMHO, well worth looking
> into if you're using Debian and like keeping up your own kernels.
>
> Gary
>
>
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