[olug] apt-get question

[Phil Brutsche]

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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> So is doing the following the old-fashioned way?
> 	download source
> 	make config(xconfig)
> 	make dep
> 	make bzImage
> 	cp bzImage /boot/new_kernel_name
> 	edit & run lilo

Yes, that's the old-fashioned way.  Oh, and you forgot "make
modules_install"

> and, is the purpose of the deb to be able to archive your current
> kernel?

Basically.  It makes it easy to share the same kernel between many
machines with a simple "apt-get install", provided you have a correctly
configured FTP directory structure.

But that (the FTP directory structure) is an entire book by itself, it
seems :)

> Sounds like making a deb would be a good idea.

It generally is, although I usually make a .tar.gz after I install the
image & modules, like so:

<become root>
cd /
tar cvfz <kernel-version>.tar.gz boot/System.map-<kernel-version>
	boot/vmlinuz-<kernel-version>
	lib/modules/<kernel-version>

The stuff after the "tar ..." should all be on the same line as the "tar"
command.

That way distributing the new kernel is as simple as:

1) FTP tarball
2) extract into root directory
3) massage bootloader for the new kernel
4) reboot

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Phil Brutsche					pbrutsch at creighton.edu

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