[wellylug] Debian kernel builders?

[Enkidu]

On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 10:59:44 +1300, you wrote:

>On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 10:52:23 +1300, Enkidu <enkidu at cliffp.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I don't often re-builld kernels since I prefer the bre-built variety.
>> However, I am trying to rebuild a kernel. I've got the kernel-source
>> package for version 2.4.xx, but there doesn't seem to be a 2.4.xx of
>> the kernel-headers package. Has the versioning parallelity between k-s
>> and k-h been broken?
>
>kernel-headers is built from the kernel source itself - you don't need
>a separate source package for it.
>
When did you stop needing the k-h package? I'm pretty sure that the
k-s package I have doesn't have the headers...
>
>The best approach for building custom kernels for Debian is to install
>"kernel-package" and read the documentation.  It's a pretty simple
>process using the "make-kpkg" tool to build .deb packages from vanilla
>kernel source (and well explained in the docs).
>
Yeah I looked at that, I'm not trying to build a package though.

Cheers,

Cliff