On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 03:18:28PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > > Does this mean that the common kernel source package would no > longer use make-kpkg to build the image? If not, why not co-ordinate > with kernel-package to get a common mechanism of creating control and > config files? kerel-package already has mechanisms for creating the > rules file, config ile, and control files, and in etch would even be > modular. Why reinvent the wheel?
I don't think kernel-package should be abandoned. Coordination should happen on this list, or did it happen already and I missed it? A common config sounds good, so far I am just guessing what to enable and what not, I like the idea of having a common "base" config and adding arch specific parts to it. If this is done, there should be documentation for this, and some best practices on how to use this. I have been looking through several kernel-image packages to pick ideas for m68k. Every arch seems to do things a little different, I think it would be better if we could agree on a handful of instructions, even if they are slightly different for the arches, instead of making everybody find out things by himself. Maybe this exists somewhere already and I am just too blind? Anyhow, I like kernel-package a lot (and I use it differently than other arches, just like I inherited it). However with some recent version, something seems to have changed so that I can not cross-compile images anymore. Maybe you can tell me what I am doing wrong. My make-kpkg call looks like this: make-kpkg --arch m68k --cross_compile m68k-linux --append-to-version -1-$i kernel_image With $i being the subarch, ie amiga, atari, mac, ... this used to build me packages called kernel-image-2.6.11-1-amiga etc (I recently added the -1, that is something needed in case of ABI changes?). However, now I get: kernel-image-2.6.11-1-amiga-m68k I have been unable to get rid of the final -m68k, is there an option or environment variable I have to set? I need --arch, otherwise the m68k config is not used, I want to crosscompile, I also tried ARCH_IN_NAME ="NO", but I always get -m68k. Why? I didn't see anything obvious in the changelog. Thanks, Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
