[Debian-eeepc-devel] building a new deb package for kernel

Darren Salt linux at youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk
Thu Sep 18 17:22:09 UTC 2008


I demand that obregonmateo at gmail.com may or may not have written...

> On Thursday 18 September 2008, obregonmateo at gmail.com wrote:
>> Silly question, but I have always used make/make install to build new
>> kernel images. However, how do I go about  making a new linux kernel .deb
>> package with modified sources (from the 2.6.26 source for lenny)?
[snip]
> Silly question answered: Debian documentation describes how to make a new 
> linux image with make-kpkg. I'll try this method.

$ fakeroot make-kpkg binary-arch

But watch out for the linux-headers-$VERSION package not containing
/usr/src/linux-headers-$VERSION/arch/x86/Makefile_32.cpu and containing a bad
symlink from /usr/src/linux-headers-$VERSION/include/asm to asm-i386 (should
be to asm-x86).

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