[Kernel-handbook-general] Question about building meta-packages

[Ben Hutchings]

On Tue, 2016-12-06 at 10:37 +0100, Andreas Heinlein wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> for a customised debian live system I have created custom kernel images 
> as described in chapter 4.2.5, "Building packages for one flavour". I 
> now need meta-packages without version in the package name, i.e. 
> linux-image-amd64, depending on the kernel packages I just built. How 
> can I create these, preferably without building many other (unneeded) 
> packages?

In Debian they are built from the linux-latest source package, using
the information in the linux-support-<abi-version> binary package built
from the linux source package.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
I'm always amazed by the number of people who take up solipsism because
they heard someone else explain it. - E*Borg on alt.fan.pratchett

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