Re: repeatable dpkg-buildpackage

[Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com>]

On Tue, 27 May 2014 15:19:30 -0400 (EDT), Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> 
> On Tue, May 27 2014, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>>
>> "Note that when building a headers package you must run the entire
>> make-kpkg command under fakeroot: you can't use the --rootcmd fakeroot
>> option in this case." -
>> https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/10/msg00002.html
> 
>         Is that accurate?
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>  % cd /usr/local/src/kernel/linus-tree
>  % git pull
>  % make-kpkg clean
>  % make-kpkg -j6 --initrd --rootcmd fakeroot    \
>      --revision=$(date +%Y.%m.%d)               \
>      --append-to-version '-anzu' kernel_headers
> This is kernel package version 13.013.
>  ...
> dpkg-deb: building package `linux-headers-3.15.0-rc7-anzu' in
>   `../linux-headers-3.15.0-rc7-anzu_2014.05.27_amd64.deb'.
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

The above quote that Ralf referred to is mine.  I found that to be
the case by trial-and-error experimentation with the version of
kernel-package that was current at the time, which I believe was
12.036.  I found that

   make-kpkg ... --rootcmd fakeroot kernel_image kernel_headers

failed during the attempted creation of the headers package, but

   fakeroot make-kpkg ... kernel_image kernel_headers

worked.  I have not tried the above scenario with the new version
of kernel-package yet.  Both methods work fine for building the
kernel image package, but only the second one works for building
a headers package.  Note that I was referring specifically to
make-kpkg and not dpkg-buildpackage in general.

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