[PLUG] Debian kernel build - where's my .deb?

Sean Whitney sean at fork.com
Tue Jun 24 05:55:03 UTC 2003


make-kpkg --revision=whatever kernel_image

If there's no kernel_image at the end you don't get the .deb file.


Sean

On Monday 23 June 2003 11:40 pm, Steve Jorgensen wrote:
> I was following the instructions at
> http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html.  Because of the
> problems with the Debian 2.4.20 kernel and gcc 3.3, it took days and days.
>  Try a build, see which package failed, figure out if I care, if not,
> remove it, if so, fix it (usually a bad data type or string constrant
> wrapping).  So, finally, eureka!  I see echo done > stamp-build.
>
> So, I follow instruction 6 in the link above, cd to /usr/src, and type ls.
>  I see I have the bz2 image, but no .deb file.  What gives?  What didn't
> finish, why didn't it tell me about a problem, and how do I get it to
> finish making the package?
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Steve Jorgensen
>
> P.S.
> Actually, I combined the instructions from there with instructions from
> somewhere else I don't recall, and added --initrd to the make-kpkg command
> line since that seems to be the appropriate thing to do.
>
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