[wellylug] Debian kernel builders?

[Pete Black]

Are you still rebuilding your kernel every couple of hours chris? :)


On 29/10/2004, at 11:58 AM, Chris Hodgetts wrote:

> 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
>>
>
>
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