Re: make-kpkg question.

[Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com>]

Adam Shand wrote:
> 
> hey.
> 
> i wanna build my own kernel using make-kpkg with some custom patches (the
> openwall patch and the sub domain patch from wirex) with the release
> 2.2.18 kernel (which isn't in debian yet).
> 
> it looks like i can just put the patches into /usr/src/kernel-patches but
> my question is do i have to wait for an official debian
> kernel-source-2.2.18 package to come out or can i just use the 2.2.18pre21
> (or even the 2.2.17 one for that matter) and download the official 2.2.18
> tarball from kernel.org and use make-kpkg with that?

  you definitely do not want use the patches for 2.2.18 with any other
kernel, unless you really know what you are doing (you would have to
make sure that the files that the patch changes are unchanged between
2.2.18 and whatever you will use).

  I don't know whether you can use non-debian tarball instead of debian
source, but it's easy enough to check - get the kernel-source-2.2.17 and
'standard' kernel tarball for 2.2.17 and compare them - if they are
different, you don't want to use tarball instead of kernel package.

	erik