Felix H. Dahlke put forth on 10/9/2009 5:19 PM: > Hi, > > I'm quite new to Debian, and wondering how long it usually takes for a > kernel patch to go through unstable and testing to stable.
No better time to learn than the present. If you want "hot off the press" kernel features and patches, go your own way, as I do, and build your own kernel and modules: greer:/# cat /etc/issue Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 \n \l greer:/# uname -a Linux greer 2.6.31.1 #1 SMP Sat Oct 3 10:43:14 CDT 2009 i686 GNU/Linux http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-common-tasks.html 4.5 Building a custom kernel from the "pristine" kernel source Building a kernel from the "pristine" (also sometimes called "vanilla") kernel source, distributed from www.kernel.org and its mirrors, may be occasionally useful for debugging or in the situations when a newer kernel version is desired. The procedure differs only in obtaining the kernel source: instead of unpacking the kernel source from Debian packages, the "pristine" source is downloaded using your favourite browser or using wget, as follows: $ wget http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.19.tar.bz2 The integrity of the downloaded archive may be verified by fetching the corresponding cryptographic signature $ wget http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.19.tar.bz2.sign and running the command (gnupg package must be installed): $ gpg --verify linux-2.6.19.tar.bz2.sign Successful verification results in output similar to the one below: gpg: Signature made Wed 29 Nov 2006 02:50:07 PM PST using DSA key ID 517D0F0E gpg: Good signature from "Linux Kernel Archives Verification Key <ftpad...@kernel.org>" gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature! gpg: There is no indication that the signature belongs to the owner. Primary key fingerprint: C75D C40A 11D7 AF88 9981 ED5B C86B A06A 517D 0F0E After that the archive may be unpacked using $ tar xjf linux-2.6.19.tar.bz2 $ cd linux-2.6.19 The unpacked kernel tree (in linux-2.6.19 now has to be configured. The existing configuration file may be used as a starting point $ cp /boot/config-2.6.18-3-686 ./.config After the configuration with one of the configuration frontends (invoked by make oldconfig, make config, make menuconfig, etc) is completed, the build may be started using make-kpkg command as described above. -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
