On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 12:29:55AM +0100, paolo massei wrote: > > Is there a reason to copy /tmp/kernel_image in /home/user/ before installing? > and
yes, when you reboot everything in /tmp is deleted, you may want to
keep the .deb around in which case you must move it out of /tmp
> Do you know if there are troubles using dpkg -i and grub like loader?
nope, just say `no' when it asks you if you want to install lilo. or
just deinstall lilo. grub need not be reinstalled every time you
install a kernel as it reads the filesystem instead of loading a list
of blocks.
just to toss my personal preference in... i created a dedicated user
account for building things like kernels and locally installed
software, user `build' with primary group `src'. this user then has
write permission to /usr/src and /usr/local/src where he can extract
the kernel source (/usr/local/src/linux-2.2.17) and compile it. i
like this method as it keeps my standard user account unprivileged and
unable to write to /usr or /usr/local partitions. but it keeps the
source in the standard locations so other users can browse it if they
wish. i also keep kernel configs, patches, tarballs and such in
build's home directory which is completely public, again for benifit
of other users.
also i wrote a small wrapper for make-kpkg:
===
#! /bin/sh -e
PRG=`basename $0`
if [ $# = 0 ] ; then
echo 1>&2 "$PRG: need revision"
exit 1
fi
echo "make-kpkg "--revision=5:$1" build"
make-kpkg "--revision=5:$1" build
echo "fakeroot make -f debian/rules kernel-image-deb"
fakeroot make -f debian/rules kernel-image-deb
===
this takes care of adding the epoch of 5 to whatever version tag i
decide to use, ensuring my package is never `upgraded' to the standard
debian package. also it does not run the compile inside fakeroot,
that way /proc/version has the real username of who built the kernel
and not [EMAIL PROTECTED]' (i don't like people thinking i am a fool who
compiles kernels and such as root ;-)). running the compiler inside
fakeroot can be risky at times too, for example glibc is miscompiled
if you compile it in a fakeroot environment. the above only packs the
already compiled kernel into the .deb package inside fakeroot.
--
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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