[wellylug] Debian kernel builders?

[jumbophut]

On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 11:26:41 +1300, Enkidu wrote:
> >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.
> 

Well, think of making the package as just a by-product.  It seriously
is easier to go:

make-kpkg kernel_image
cd ..
dpkg -i name_of_kernel_image_deb.deb

than it is to do the whole set of kernel compile commands manually,
copy the image etc. to the right place and rerun lilo/grub.

I gave up compiling kernels the hard way the day I discovered
make-kpkg and have no real incentive to go back.  If you want to
extract the image from the .deb package, it is possible using ar and
tar.

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