[Kernel-handbook-general] custom kernel package - header/doc/man/source packages and .dsc files

[Ben Hutchings]

On Sun, 2012-09-16 at 03:48 +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> So far I'm using kernel-package for generating all my custom kernels,...
> but we all know it's quite outdated in many places and not really
> maintained anymore.
> 
> In principle I'd like to move over using the mechanisms of the
> respective debian linux-source-* as described here:
> http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-common-tasks.html#s-common-building

Note that the deb-pkg rule is part of the upstream source
(scripts/package/builddeb) and not specific to the Debian-patched
source.

> Now unfortunately it misses some things I'd need:
> 1) -header, -doc, -man, -source packages seem to be not generated. At
> least the first is required for dkms and the others were always quite
> handy and generated by kernel-package.

-headers is generated

> 2) I put my kernels into my local repos, and kernel-package had
> mechanisms to automatically:
> - set control fields like maintainer email

The standard $DEBEMAIL is used.

> - generate .dsc files and sign them with a preconfigured gpg key.
> 
> Is that possible already now (and just undocumented) or should I open
> wishlist bugs against linux-source?

Please don't add more noise to the bug tracker.  I don't think anyone on
the kernel team has a lot of time for feature development outside of
paid work.

However - patches welcome (see Documentation/SubmittingPatches).

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.
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