Re: Make-kpkg

[David Z Maze <dmaze@debian.org>]

"Stephen J. Thompson" <stephen@cass-ltd.co.uk> writes:

> I am trying to find documentation to create modules with
> make-kpkg. I am trying to find out how I unpack a tar file and
> manipulate it so that I can issue a make-kpkg module_image ...

Like, a tar file in /usr/src that a *-source package installed?  You
can unpack it in /usr/src, or unpack it somewhere else and set the
MODULE_LOC environment variable to point to the resulting modules/
directory.  You also need a kernel source tree that was built using
kernel-package.

(In other words, I think you can't do this without full kernel source,
since make-kpkg wants to get information about things like the
revision of the kernel out of the files in the debian/ directory.  The
kernel-headers/kernel-build packages don't seem to provide this data.)

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