When is a new kernel released?

Ylan Segal ylan.segal at gmail.com
Fri Jul 7 12:24:29 UTC 2006


Felipe Figueiredo wrote:
> Assuming you did read a lot about the kernel options, and are willing to take 
> your chances, the basics are somewhat like follows
> 
> sudo aptitude install kernel-package
> 
> go into kernel source dir
> cp /boot/config-<your kernel version> .config
> sudo make-kpkg --initrd --config xconfig kernel-image
> sudo make-kpkg kernel-headers
> <go get some coffee>
> cd ..
> dpkg -i <.debs created>
> 
> I did this a bunch of times in debian, and were using lilo. You may (highly 
> unlikely) have to do something else to make grub realize there's a new kernel 
> option.

I have done this with the dapper kernel also and it works. dpkp make the
grub entries for you and doesn't remove the old kernel, so you can pick
which one you want to use at boot time.

The howto I found in the forums[1] has pretty much the same process for
a vanilla kernel too, if I ignore some patch being applied that I am not
interested in at the moment. I am working up the courage tom give this a
try.

-- 
Ylan

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perfect harmony with human ambition"
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