Package: kernel-package
Version: 8.125
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
I have been recently trying to work through some problems in a module
package and found it difficult to determine which targets are called
at what time and for what purpose. It seems that the most logical place
for this to be documented is in README.modules, which is exactly what
this patch does.
The information was taken from one of your (Manoj's) e-mails to the
debian-mentors mailing list [1] and from looking through the rules file.
The information is correct to the best of my understanding, but may
require some modifications/additions.
Hope this is useful,
Kevin
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2002/05/msg00063.html
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10.20050403a
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages kernel-package depends on:
ii dpkg 1.10.27 Package maintenance system for Deb
ii dpkg-dev 1.10.27 Package building tools for Debian
ii gcc [c-compiler] 4:3.3.5-3 The GNU C compiler
ii gcc-3.3 [c-compiler] 1:3.3.5-8 The GNU C compiler
ii make 3.80-9 The GNU version of the "make" util
ii perl 5.8.4-8 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
-- no debconf information
--- README.modules 2005-04-08 21:08:53.711566336 -0400
+++ README.modules.new 2005-04-08 21:08:26.311731744 -0400
@@ -153,9 +153,19 @@
$(MODULE_LOC:-/usr/src/modules)/<mod-name>/, and runs ./debian/rules
<target>.
+ <target> can be one of:
+ kdist_image Create the binary image of the module
+ * Called for make-kpkg modules_image
+ kdist Generate the modules packages and sign them
+ * Called for make-kpkg modules
+ kdist_configure Configure the modules packages
+ * Called for make-kpkg modules_config
+ kdist_clean Clean the modules source tree
+ * Called for make-kpkg modules_clean
+
Starting with kernel version 2.6.X, the build process is
for third party modules has been modified; now modules are expected
- to build in hte kenrel sources dir, and you set the SUBDIR arg to
+ to build in the kenrel sources dir, and you set the SUBDIR arg to
point to the source for the module itself. This arranges for the
kernel makefiles to do all the boilerplate work of building/running
modpost, dependencies, et cetera. Here's the "new" way of building a
