Re: [LAU] Alternative Kernel for Mint 17.1?

On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 13:45:24 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>As someone else pointed out, there is a possibility of adding a few
>lines and actually generating a deb with the make-kdeb facility. But
>that is something I have never felt the need to do.
>
>To whoever made those suggestions (Ralf?) hop right in & if it breaks,
>you get to keep all the pieces. ;-)
>
>Those added lines to make the deb, I would also terminate with the && \
>so that if it breaks, you can hopefully still see why on screen or
>with some scrollback. I have that normally set for 100K lines here.

If it breaks, it just adds a few lines even without && \ and the point
were it stops building, is just a few lines scrolling up. The utility
for Debian and *buntu to build kernel packages doesn't add lines, I
just add downloading the sources, patching and adding the links to the
source in /lib. It's very comfortable and even easier to use, than the
very easy to use package building tool for Arch Linux. Building other
Debian/Ubuntu packages, than kernel packages, is not that easy for
Debian/Ubuntu, this is easier to do using Arch Linux. I recommended to
install fakeroot, but didn't use it in my explanation. JFTR, I also
didn't add to build kernel source and kernel doc packages, since the
image and headers packages are what we usually want.

It might be worth testing if
make-kpkg --rootcmd fakeroot [followed by commands what to do]
does work without issues, since building with root privileges is
frowned upon.

YMMV!
Ralf
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Received on Wed Feb 18 00:15:02 2015