recipe for building my own kernel for 10.04?

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at crashcourse.ca
Tue May 11 15:04:47 UTC 2010


On Tue, 11 May 2010, sktsee wrote:

> On Tue, 11 May 2010 10:21:54 -0400, Tom H wrote:
>
> > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:12 AM, sktsee <sktsee at tulsaconnect.com>
> > wrote:
> >> On Tue, 11 May 2010 06:58:12 -0400, Robert P. J. Day 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.
> >>>
> >> You should probably fix it back.
> >>
> >> $ aptitude search ~v~nncurses
> >> v  libncurses-dev
> >> v  ncurses-dev
> >> v  ncurses-runtime
> >>
> >> Ncurses-dev is a virtual package.
> >
> > But libncurses5-dev is the one that you need so it's OK.
>
> Yeah, except Debian policy says it isn't ok:
> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-binary.html
> 3.6 Virtual packages
> "Sometimes, there are several packages which offer more-or-less the same
> functionality. In this case, it's useful to define a virtual package
> whose name describes that common functionality. (The virtual packages
> only exist logically, not physically; that's why they are called
> virtual.) The packages with this particular function will then provide
> the virtual package. *Thus, any other package requiring that function can
> simply depend on the virtual package without having to specify all
> possible packages individually. *

  you're right, that was just my unfamiliarity with debian virtual
packages.  i'll put it back.

rday
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