Re: Kernel packages

[Roberto Sanchez <rcsanchez97@yahoo.es>]

Dan Korostelev wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I have a tarball linux-2.6.6.tar.bz2. Can I build the
> kernel-image-2.6.6-1-k7 package _exactly_ like in Debian repositories? I
> don't want to download kernel-image package on my modem, but I download
> updates for vanilla kernels (patches for example from 2.6.5 to 2.6.6). 
>
> Please CC me.

Basically you get the kernel-patch-debian-* package for your vanilla
kernel and then you can build the exact same kernel as is in the
repository.

$ apt-cache show kernel-patch-debian-2.6.6
Package: kernel-patch-debian-2.6.6
Priority: optional
Section: devel
Installed-Size: 752
Maintainer: Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>
Architecture: all
Source: kernel-source-2.6.6
Version: 2.6.6-1
Depends: bzip2
Suggests: kernel-source-2.6.6
Filename: 
pool/main/k/kernel-source-2.6.6/kernel-patch-debian-2.6.6_2.6.6-1_all.deb
Size: 690822
MD5sum: a6c77bf2a1f4a6d3a24ddbf4bc9a1d9c
Description: Debian patches to Linux 2.6.6
 This package includes the patches used to produce the prepackaged
 kernel-source-2.6.6 package.  They should be applied to a pristine
 Linux 2.6.6 kernel.


-Roberto Sanchez

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