Re: [Sheflug] debian potato / woody / ...

[Richard Lowe <nospam [at] Btinternet.com>]

* Barrie Bremner (baz [at] barriebremner.com) wrote:
> >>>>> "Alex" == Alex Hudson <home [at] alexhudson.com> writes:
> 
>     Alex> On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 07:12:01PM +0100, Jos? Luis G?mez
>     Alex> Dans wrote:
>     >> If you have 2.2rX, and a woody mirror, change your
>     >> /etc/apt/sources.list. Where it says stable (or 2.2r2 or
>     >> whatever), write "unstable". My sources.list looks like this:
> 
>     Alex> Jose, "unstable" is "sid", not "woody"!! You're behind the
>     Alex> times mate!
> 
>     Alex> I really don't recommend using unstable... they fsck glibc
>     Alex> too many times for my liking... :))
> 
>     Alex> I also see you have a sources.list more cutting edge than
>     Alex> all the knives in Sheffield...
> 
> ROFL!
> 
> I've read thro' the Debian site a few times, and figured out the whole
> stable/testing/oh-my-god-how-scarily-unstable relationships.
> 
> Alex, you'll also be glad to know that my kernel trees now reside in
> /usr/local/src/linux-2.4.x[-preX] :-)
> 
> Does any one have any thoughts on maintaining programs/systems like
> XEmacs, Mozilla and vanilla kernels that aren't aways available in
> packages (.deb and .rpm rather than xemacs pkgs)?
> 
> What is the recommended course of action with kernel-header and
> kernel-source RPMs on a system?
> 

Well, specifically with debian, and specifically with kernels...
use make-kpkg, really useful if you use the same kernel on more than one
machine.

apt-get install kernel-package

then when you make the kernel, use make-kpkg --revision=<whatever> binary
(or I normal just use make-kpkg --revision=<whatever> kernel_image 
kernel_headers)
after you've done make menuconfig, or whatever.

The only problem is you have to be careful with the --revision argument
to make-kpkg or else apt will just upgrade over your freshly compiled
kernel :)


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