Re: Building kernel image packages with make-kpkg, custom dependency
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 02:36:37PM -0500, Cliff Flood wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having some problems with building kernel image packages using `make-kpkg`
>
> I'm trying to build a package with a custom dependency and have tried
> editing the control files generated by make-kpkg but find that these
> changes don't make it into the produced package.
>
> So let me back up and explain what's going on.
>
> I need to distribute a custom kernel-img.conf to my systems (to ensure
> they have "silent_modules" set to "yes" which will allow unattended
> upgrades of kernels that match the one that is currently installed)
> and I'm doing this by including kernel-img.conf in one of my parent
> packages. This first version of this package that included this file I
> wish to include as a dependency for my distributed kernel image
> packages.
What file(s) have you tried to edit? When?
>
> While I'm on the topic I had another problem I have solved but if
> there's a better way of doing this I'd like to hear it; On my systems
> /boot is mounted RO so it must be remounted RW before a kernel can be
> installed. I've achieved this by patching the "preinst" generated by
> make-kpkg, is there a better way?
Is it just /boot ? Or some other parts of the file system? What happens
when you need to insall / upgrade grub?
>
> It seems I have the solution to my problem but I'm frustrated by
> implementation issues.
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