[wellylug] Debian kernel builders?

[Chris Hodgetts]

As far as I knew the headers were only used if you used the default
debian pre-built kernel, and got an application that you needed to build
from source that required the kernel-headers.

I have always just downloaded the kernel source file from
ftp.nz.kernel.org and compiled my own - not using the debian source /
header packages...



On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 11:26 +1300, Enkidu wrote:
> 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
>