[Kernel-handbook-general] building 2.6.26 kernel source fails on squeeze

Ben Hutchings ben at decadent.org.uk
Thu May 19 18:38:59 UTC 2011


On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 12:00:48AM +0530, Faheem Mitha wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, 17 May 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> 
> >>>>>diff -r 8b4d248d871d chapter-common-tasks.sgml
> >>>>>--- a/chapter-common-tasks.sgml	Thu May 05 01:07:52 2011 +0530
> >>>>>+++ b/chapter-common-tasks.sgml	Thu May 05 01:49:03 2011 +0530
> >>>>>@@ -176,7 +176,16 @@
> >>>>>  	    <tt><em>target</em>_<em>arch</em>_<em>featureset</em>_<em>flavour</em></tt>.
> >>>>>  	    Replace the <tt><em>featureset</em></tt> with
> >>>>>  	    <tt>none</tt> if you do not want any of the extra
> >>>>>-	    featuresets.
> >>>>>+	    featuresets. This command will build the linux image and
> >>>>>+	    kernel headers packages. You will also need
> >>>>
> >>>>Not 'will', but 'may'.
> >>>
> >>>Why 'may'? You mean because it might fail?
> >>[...]
> 
> >>Because if you haven't changed the headrs or the ABI name, the previous
> >>version is probably fine.
> 
> >Oh, no, that's not true.  However, most people don't need the
> >linux-headers packages at all as they don't need OOT modules.
> 
> I still don't see why 'may' is the right word here. The command
> *will* build the packages unless the build fails for some reason.
> Whether people need the packages isn't relevant. But this isn't
> important.
> 
> BTW, where are you committing this? Not to the location I have.
[...]

On the git repository, per
<http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/kernel-handbook-general/2011-May/000084.html>

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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