Errors when building a kernel

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,

Am Samstag, den 22.08.2015, 08:52 -0400 schrieb Tom H:
> On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 8:10 AM, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >
> > also note that an ubuntu kernel package is more than vmlinuz and
> > modules ... there are configs and postinst scripts run at install time
> > of the deb. given that make-kpkg is a debian tool that nobody in ubuntu
> > uses for building kernel packages I wouldn't expect the resulting
> > package to apply the right postinst/preinst config at all for example or
> > set up /etc/kernel in the same way as an ubuntu built kernel package
> > does ... sure, you might be lucky and the setup might be the same.
> 
> I've used "make" "make deb-pkg" "make-kpkg ..." on Ubuntu on my laptop
> and on production servers without having a problem. Perhaps I was
> lucky but I doubt it; and I doubt that make-kpkg is the source of
> Ralf's problem(s), although it's theoretically deprecated.
> 

yeah, as i said, it might be fine, it just adds another uncertainity to
a bunch of others as nobody doing official work on ubuntu actually uses
it (kernel-package sits in universe and gets synced completely untouched
from debian).

ciao
	oli





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