[kernel] r16342 - in dists/sid/linux-2.6/debian: . templates
Ben Hutchings
benh at alioth.debian.org
Wed Sep 22 01:47:32 UTC 2010
Author: benh
Date: Wed Sep 22 01:47:29 2010
New Revision: 16342
Log:
Recommend use of 'make deb-pkg' to build custom kernel packages
Modified:
dists/sid/linux-2.6/debian/README.Debian
dists/sid/linux-2.6/debian/changelog
dists/sid/linux-2.6/debian/templates/control.main.in
Modified: dists/sid/linux-2.6/debian/README.Debian
==============================================================================
--- dists/sid/linux-2.6/debian/README.Debian Tue Sep 21 23:01:28 2010 (r16341)
+++ dists/sid/linux-2.6/debian/README.Debian Wed Sep 22 01:47:29 2010 (r16342)
@@ -24,8 +24,16 @@
or EXPERIMENTAL are of very low priority, and should not be enabled in
customized builds for a security-sensitive environment.
-Building specific binary packages
----------------------------------
+Building custom kernel binary packages
+--------------------------------------
+We recommend using the 'make deb-pkg' target provided by the upstream
+kernel source.
+
+Alternately, you may use the 'make-kpkg' command provided by the
+'kernel-package' package.
+
+Rebuilding official binary packages
+-----------------------------------
You can build specific kernel binary packages using the targets in
debian/rules.gen, which have names of the form:
binary-arch_<architecture>_<featureset>_<flavour>
Modified: dists/sid/linux-2.6/debian/changelog
==============================================================================
--- dists/sid/linux-2.6/debian/changelog Tue Sep 21 23:01:28 2010 (r16341)
+++ dists/sid/linux-2.6/debian/changelog Wed Sep 22 01:47:29 2010 (r16342)
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
* Add stable 2.6.32.22:
- [openvz,vserver] Revert sched changes since they conflict with
these featuresets
+ * Recommend use of 'make deb-pkg' to build custom kernel packages
[ Martin Michlmayr ]
* ARM: update mach types.
Modified: dists/sid/linux-2.6/debian/templates/control.main.in
==============================================================================
--- dists/sid/linux-2.6/debian/templates/control.main.in Tue Sep 21 23:01:28 2010 (r16341)
+++ dists/sid/linux-2.6/debian/templates/control.main.in Wed Sep 22 01:47:29 2010 (r16342)
@@ -23,11 +23,6 @@
modifications to that source consist of security fixes, bug fixes, and
features that have already been (or are believed to be) accepted by the
upstream maintainers.
- .
- If you wish to use this package to create a custom Linux kernel, then
- it is suggested that you investigate the package kernel-package,
- which has been designed to ease the task of creating kernel image
- packages.
Package: linux-doc- at version@
Architecture: all
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