BuildYourOwnKernel wiki edit?

Brad Figg brad.figg at canonical.com
Mon Mar 21 17:49:27 UTC 2011


On 03/19/2011 09:28 AM, Kamal Mostafa wrote:
> Hi folks-
>
> Proposed wiki page edits...
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/BuildYourOwnKernel recommends the
> sequence:
>
>          fakeroot debian/rules clean
>          fakeroot debian/rules binary-generic
>
> Now, I *always* also build 'binary-headers' since it is quick and often
> necessary (right?).  Is there any reason why we shouldn't change that
> wiki to recommend building 'binary-headers' also?:
>
>          fakeroot debian/rules clean
>          fakeroot debian/rules binary-headers binary-generic
>
> I also propose making the Testing section explicitly state that you
> should always install all three resulting .debs together:
>
>          dpkg -i  \
>                  linux-headers-2.6.38-6_2.6.38-6.34_all.deb  \
>                  linux-headers-2.6.38-6-generic_2.6.38-6.34_amd64.deb  \
>                  linux-image-2.6.38-6-generic_2.6.38-6.34_amd64.deb
>
> Opinions?
>
>   -Kamal
>

I think those are good changes to make.

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