recipe for building my own kernel for 10.04?

[Tom H]

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 6:58 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> On Tue, 11 May 2010, Tom H wrote:
>
>> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 6:42 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>> > On Mon, 10 May 2010, Tom H wrote:
>> >
>> >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/GitKernelBuild
>> >
>> > huh, that looks fairly straightforward. except for the occasional
>> > typo -- there is no ncurses-dev package as suggested on that page,
>> > it's actually libncurses5-dev, but i can get a launchpad account and
>> > fix that.
>>
>> The wiki.ubuntu.com pages tend to be "funky".
>>
>> It is definitely libncurses5-dev...
>
>  i've already fixed that on that page.
>
>> I looked at your kernel newbie pages and have one question: you
>> refer on "Building and running a new kernel" (I think) to pulling a
>> git tree and point the reader to an earlier unnamed column but I was
>> unable to find the latter.
>
>  hmmm ... all the links should be there, i'll check that page later
> today for completeness.  in any event, it's the same git tree
> mentioned at the ubuntu page -- the main linus repo at git.kernel.org,
> so it's the same "git clone" command.

Thanks. I have re-read the wiki page and, yes, it shows how to import
kernel.org's git tree. What I was looking for was whether using a git
tree as opposed to what I do, which is simply to download the kernel
source from kernel.org and compile it, would make sense for me by
reading a detailed howto.

I also noticed that the wiki page uses (unsurprisingly) make-kpkg. I
tried compiling a kernel with make-kpkg twice (once on Ubuntu and once
on Debian), failed miserably, and went back to using the "standard"
make commands because I didn't care to find out what I might have done
wrong - there must clearly have been SOME user error(s) somewhere.