On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Martin Steigerwald <mar...@lichtvoll.de> wrote: > Am Sonntag, 11. November 2012 schrieb Tom H: >> >> I've also never seen any Debian documentation pointing to building a >> kernel elsewhere than in "/usr/src/". It's been the RHEL/Fedora way >> for years though. > > That doesn´t make it a good practice. > > I still think using a directory in home is more suitable and am following > recommendation of Greg Kroah-Hartman and others there as well as the > official recommendation in kernel README: > > INSTALLING the kernel source: > > - If you install the full sources, put the kernel tarball in a > directory where you have permissions (eg. your home directory) and > unpack it: > > gzip -cd linux-3.X.tar.gz | tar xvf - > > or > > bzip2 -dc linux-3.X.tar.bz2 | tar xvf - > > Replace "X" with the version number of the latest kernel. > > Do NOT use the /usr/src/linux area! This area has a (usually > incomplete) set of kernel headers that are used by the library header > files. They should match the library, and not get messed up by > whatever the kernel-du-jour happens to be. > > Granted, you can just build in a sub directory of /usr/src, but still I > would not clog that directory with my own manual builds and just leave it > to the package manager, module-assistant, possibly dkms.
Thanks for the README snippet above. I'd never seen it before. "kernel-du-jour" :) That RHEL/Fedora dont' use "/usr/src" might, on its own, not make it good practice, but since they're following kernel documentation perhaps it does! -- 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/CAOdo=SwahxSGWxr7cY_vmoY93th7-j=nxzknbgf9ml4unc6...@mail.gmail.com
