On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 18:13 +0000, Jurij Smakov wrote: > On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 05:28:04AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: [...] > > To build a kernel image package, follow the instructions at: > > > > http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-common-tasks.html#s-common-official > > > > Note in particular the instructions beginning 'For example, to build > > only the binary packages for 686 flavour...' > > That does not quite work, one should replace the command > > fakeroot debian/rules debian/build debian/stamps > > from this doc with > > fakeroot debian/rules setup > > for the current linux-2.6 packages.
The examples are wrong but the instructions are right!
'debian/rules source' is sufficient so I'm going to recommend that. I
have fixed this in svn and will update the web site some time soon.
> > The kernel image packages will depend on the linux-base package which
> > contains the transition script. To build that, run:
> >
> > $ fakeroot make -f debian/rules.real install-linux-base
> >
> > Please test both the transition script and the new drivers so far as you
> > can (most are x86-only but some are available for all architectures with
> > PCI). I suggest starting with an emulated/virtualised system before you
> > risk breaking anything real!
>
> For me the installation of linux-base (on sparc) just hangs while
> configuring the package. It appears that it loops forever in the
> lilo_list function, presumably after hitting the token corresponding
> to 'image=/vmlinuz' line in /etc/silo.conf, as the following code
> snippet fails to increment the counter used to loop through the
> tokens:
>
> if ($name eq 'image') {
> $in_generic = ($value =~ m|^/vmlinuz(?:\.old)?$|);
> next;
> }
Oops, I'm sure I had that working at one point. Please try
<http://people.debian.org/~benh/linux-2.6_2.6.32-8a~test1.dsc>.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
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