I have always wondered. I manage a fair few Debian machines, as since I started using debian about 12months ago after coming from Slackware. I have since given up on anything else, and only use Debian.
I noticed that when you build a kernel on your machine, that you can also make your kernel image and modules for your machine into a deb package, which then is usuable on other machines. Basically my question is, how do I make a deb kernel image, so that it can be transferred to other machines and used. Since all the machines are on the same hardware. And another thing I am curious about, is if compile something to my system, how could i turn the compiled/installed program into a deb file ready to use on another machine. So how do the package maintainers make there deb packages to be submitted to the package tree? I am very interested to know, and use it for my own benefit. Who knows I might someday become a maintainer of my own package :) Please email me directly, I am not on the list, and only broswe the disgest every so often :) Thanks
