Brian Nelson wrote: > Why not just download the kernel-source package? Similar to the > vanilla ones, but usually with a few patches applied.
That's exactly why not. I'd rather have a vanilla Linus kernel source tree to which I can apply patches without worrying about whether they'll conflict with whatever patches the Debian maintainers decided to apply. > The package > installs the bzip2'ed source in /usr/src. Just tar -jxf it, configure > with 'make menuconfig' or whatever, and then build a custom > kernel-image package with 'make-kpkg kernel_image'. I have not found any reason to prefer make-kpkg over "make bzImage" and manually installing the kernel image. > I find it's much easier to manage and install kernel-images using > the packaging system. I have not found this to be the case. Installing kernels isn't that complex a process anyway. Craig
