On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 01:55:41PM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote: > 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.
I hate to wade in on this, but I used to use make-package, but have returned to just using the plain kernel package process, which I find to be so simple, and so amenable to changes I want to make, that it results in a very pleasant process. In fact, I try out new kernels just to see how some new features work, what it's feasible to change, and it is, for me, just fun to use the basic kernel. I expect that either will work,and I have used, and appreciated, debian for years, but not for kernel purposes. -- Gary Dolan Debian GNU/Linux 2.2, Kernel 2.4.9 FreeBSD 4.3
