[wellylug] Debian kernel builders?

Chris Hodgetts chris at archnetnz.com
Fri Oct 29 13:15:06 NZDT 2004


:p

The last build I did was to 2.6.9 .. which is actually working out quite
well..

:)


On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 12:10 +1300, Pete Black wrote:
> 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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