Re: Kernel build with kpkg (was Install of VMware)
On Sat, Sep 23, 2000 at 07:11:23PM -0300, Henrique M Holschuh wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Henrique M Holschuh wrote:
> > > Am I misreading the docs?
> > I don't know. What I could suggest you to do is this:
>
> Well, now I know. The make-kpkg man page makes it very clear that the only
> target which knows how to deal with rootcmd is buildpackage. I never use it,
> though. I don't need to build the rather big kernel-doc package, as I keep
> the kernel source tree around.
Thanks for the clarification. The following (from the kernel-package README)
led me to believe (especially the part that I begin with ">>>" ) that it would
work with kernel_image:
Phase ONE: Getting and configuring the kernel
1 % cd <kernel source tree>
2 % make config # or make menuconfig or make xconfig and configure
Phase TWO: Create a portable kernel image .deb file
3 % make-kpkg clean
4 % $Get_Root make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image
(Get_Root is whatever you need to become root -- fakeroot or
sudo are examples that come to mind).
Phase THREE: Install the kernel image on one or more machines
5 # dpkg -i ../kernel-image-X.XXX_1.0_<arch>.deb
6 # shutdown -r now
>>> With the addition of fakeroot ( a really nice program, I recommend
>>> it). To use fake root, try setting ROOT_CMD to 'fakeroot --'. Steps
>>> 1 to 4 can be carried out as a non root user. Step 5 does require
>>> root privileges.
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