[Kernel-handbook-general] Minor correction to kernel handbook

[Ben Hutchings]

On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 21:36 +1100, Tim Richardson wrote:
> The last line in this pasted block didn't work for me (2.6.38)

What do you mean, didn't work?

> 4.2.1 Preparation
> Run the following commands: 
> 
> 
> $ apt-get source linux-2.6
>         
>         This will download and unpack the linux-2.6 source package,
>         making the tree available in the linux-2.6-version directory.
>         As always, the revision part of the version of this package
>         (for example, 8 in 2.6.18-8) will determine its patchlevel
>         with respect to the original upstream kernel source. 
>         
> # apt-get install build-essential fakeroot
> # apt-get build-dep linux-2.6
> 
> 
> 
> Instead, I tried
> apt-get build-dep linux-source-2.6

If that works, it's an undocumented feature.  'apt-get build-dep' is
supposed to take a source package name, not a binary package name.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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