On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Stephen Powell <zlinux...@wowway.com> wrote: > <SNIP> I welcome > further review and feedback, especially from those who wanted an Nvidia > example. Is this the kind of thing you were looking for? Or did I miss > the mark?
Under Introduction: "...recommendation was *make* for simplicity's sake, not for philosophical reasons." Should be "made". Under Step 3, you recommend "aptitude full-upgrade", but "aptitude safe-upgrade" might be preferable for stable systems (i.e., Lenny or soon Squeeze). safe-upgrade will "install candidate version of installed packages without removing any other packages " while full-upgrade will "install candidate version of installed packages while removing other packages if needed" [1] Just a thought, since I suspect this document will be something of a defacto standard referred to by many. "That's like buying Maxwell House to get a cup of coffee" ... I lol'd. But seriously, this whole history section on make-kpkg versus official debian maintainer scripts is very interesting reading. Under Customizing the Lenny Environment: "When installing a kernel image package created by make-kpkg, one will be created if the --initrd option was specified on the make-kpkg command line when the kernel image package was created" I'm going to be building again tonight, but IIRC this didn't work for me. That is, I did not specify the --initrd option on the make-kpkg command, yet one was still created. I mistakenly then tried to change the make-kpkg.conf to "do_initrd = no", and it's nice to finally understand why that didn't work either. Anywho, I'll be going through it in more detail tonight or tomorrow when I build new kernel from upstream, but all in all it looks like a major revision and a significant contribution to the community. Thanks much for this information! Best, AM [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch02.en.html#_basic_package_management_operations -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktikpztbv5-wewondkubagm+aczhxhwgvn1vah...@mail.gmail.com
