Menno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I believe unstable's make-kpkg has > > some support for building kernel modules given > > I use stable, and there is some kind of support in it. According to > the docs in /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README.modules is should do > something like this: > > make-kpkg --revision number kernel_image > make-kpkg modules_image
Note that the first step there builds a custom kernel from unpacked source; see also http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html. The second step assumes the kernel tree from the first. > I suspect that I have to chage something in the Makefile of the > kernel-source to get this right. Should line 4 look like EXTRAVERSION > = -1-686 ??? You want to add --append-to-version -1-686 to your make-kpkg flags. > > bug 189513 points at > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2002/debian-devel-200203/msg01794.html, > > suggests doing this: > > Yes, that helped me. In the end I did this, and I was able to installa > the .deb file: <*snip*> > ln -s kernel-source-2.4.18 linux > cd /usr/src/linux (I don't generally recommend doing that: at some point you're going to boot a different kernel, and the symlink is going to be wrong, and you're going to compile something that sees the symlink and assumes it's correct.) > fakeroot debian/rules kdist_image \ > KSRC=/usr/src/kernel-headers-2.4.18-1-686 \ > KVERS=2.4.18-1-686 KDREV=2.4.18-11 This ignores the kernel-source package you installed entirely, incidentally. But if it works, that's good to hear. > Is this "standard procedure"? Do it again when kernel 2.4.18-14 is > released? Yes, sadly, and yes. > Or, will this be easier in the next release of Debian (as in unstable?). I'm making a somewhat vague effort to provide precompiled kernel modules in unstable, but it's tricky keeping up with the current kernels. lm-sensors 2.8.0, with precompiled modules for kernel 2.4.21-4, is in the incoming queue waiting for ftpmaster approval, but kernel 2.4.21-5 is current in unstable now. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
