Recently I upgraded most of my machines from the version of
kernel-package that came with hamm to 6.05.
Now when I build kernel source packages, instead of the kernel-source
package unrolling to /usr/src/kernel-source-x.x.x it just creates
/usr/src/kernel-source-x.x.x.tar.gz.
The make-kpkg man page states:
kernel_source
This target produces a debianised package of the
Linux kernel sources. The package produced also has
scripts called at install and delete times that
manage the symbolic link /usr/src/linux and ensure
that the link is pointed at the latest
source/header package on the system.
suggesting that the /usr/src/linux link gets updated by the
kernel-source and kernel-headers packages. But on my system, after
installing custom kernel packages, I get:
%ls -la /usr/src
total 12944
drwxrwsr-x 4 root src 1024 Mar 5 08:46 .
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 1024 Feb 4 10:18 ..
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 1024 Oct 26 09:48 boot-floppies
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Mar 5 08:45 kernel-headers-2.2.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13196998 Feb 5 09:58
kernel-source-2.2.1.tar.gz
so this obviously isn't happening.
The problem I have is that I have a number of third party kernel
modules (mostly gpib), which are expecting to find a configured src
tree in /usr/src, including module information . Even if I unroll
kernel-source-2.2.1.tar.gz and point /usr/src/linux to it, these won't
building since neither of these packages include the version
information contained in /usr/src/linux/modversions.h and
/usr/src/linux/modules/*.ver. So something isn't working here.
My workaround has been ugly... when I make a custom kernel, I sandbag
the .config. When I need to build third-party modules, I unroll my
upstream kerenl source in /usr/src/linux, copy in the .config, do a
full kernel build but no install, then build the modules, install the
modules, and clean up my mess.
There's definitely at least one bug here, but I thought I'd ask for a
clarification before submitting a bug report.
Can anyone clear up this mess?
Thanks.
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Richard W Kaszeta Graduate Student/Sysadmin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of MN, ME Dept
http://www.menet.umn.edu/~kaszeta
