Re: How often do the repositories get updated?

[Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@internode.on.net>]

Sven Joachim wrote, on 2008-12-31 18:43:
> On 2008-12-31 01:57 +0100, Dean Chester wrote:
>
> > I am just wondering how frequently do the repositories get updated for
> > kernels as ive not been able to update to the new kernel 2.6.28. My
> > custom built kernel doesn't work:(. I am running debian sid and i also
> > noticed that the kernel 2.6.27 wasn't put in to the repositories.
>
> There are no new kernels in sid because of the Lenny freeze, but the
> kernel team provides them in an extra repository, see
> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianKernel.  2.6.28 has not been packaged yet,
> though.
>
> Sven 

kernel.org 2.6.28 source builds easily under Debian. (I had to manually 
add the SCSI eata patch which just missed the initial 2.6.28 source 
release).

Before running make-kpkg, I copied the /boot/config-2.6.27-1-686 
installed from the latest linux-image-2.6.27-1-686 binary installed from 
kernel-archive.buildserver.net (linked from the wiki.debian.org URL 
above) into the main directory of the unpacked 2.6.28 kernel source, ran 
make menuconfig, made a few tweaks for my own preferences and saved the 
result, then ran

make-kpkg --initrd linux-image

which created the .deb file that could be installed by running dpkg -i 
<name-of-file>.deb

Arthur.