On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, juan j casero wrote: > Hi Folks - > > In my never ending saga with Debian Linux and the custom kernel I finally > found thanks to help from others on the net dpkg-dev.... and installed it. > When I tried to make the custom kernel package I get the following error: > > warning, 'debian/tmp-image/DEBIAN/control/' contains user-defined field > 'Installed-Size' > dpkg-deb: building package 'kernel-image-2.0.25' in '..'. > dpkg-deb: ignoring 1 warning about control file(s) > dpkg-deb: unable to create '..': Is a directory > make: *** [stamp-image] Error 2 > > Some one please explain this to me. I've done everything as it says in > the docs and I can't understand why it is so hard to build a kernel in > Debian Linux. While the idea of package handling is good I am beginning > to feel a bit frustrated by all this. I don't understand why it has to be > so difficult to build a custom kernel. Building a kernel is probably one > of the most important things a person would do with his/her linux box and > while slackware has received much bad PR recently I can say that building > a kernel with it is much easier. > > > Thanks..... > Juan > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
They're some useful package in Debian Linux that can really ease things. To make a custom kernel, I simply run the config script in the kernel-source package (by typing make xconfig, make menuconfig, or make config) and then run the ./DEBIAN.rules in the same dir (may be I mistype the name, my source aren't installed). To make a custom-kernel-[source or image or headers] package, download the kernel-package in the misc section. Work pretty well. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
