[wellylug] Debian kernel builders?

[Enkidu]

On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 14:40:24 +1300, you wrote:

>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.
>
Mmm, I'll have to revisit it. From what I read when I looked at it, I
thought it said that I would still have to do the "make" tango. As
such it didn't seem much of a win.

Cheers,

Cliff