17 Feb
2015
17 Feb
'15
7:21 p.m.
On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 13:45:24 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
As someone else pointed out, there is a possibility of
adding a few
lines and actually generating a deb with the make-kdeb facility. But
that is something I have never felt the need to do.
To whoever made those suggestions (Ralf?) hop right in & if it breaks,
you get to keep all the pieces. ;-)
Those added lines to make the deb, I would also terminate with the && \
so that if it breaks, you can hopefully still see why on screen or
with some scrollback. I have that normally set for 100K lines here.
If it breaks, it just adds a few lines even without && \ and the point
were it stops building, is just a few lines scrolling up. The utility
for Debian and *buntu to build kernel packages doesn't add lines, I
just add downloading the sources, patching and adding the links to the
source in /lib. It's very comfortable and even easier to use, than the
very easy to use package building tool for Arch Linux. Building other
Debian/Ubuntu packages, than kernel packages, is not that easy for
Debian/Ubuntu, this is easier to do using Arch Linux. I recommended to
install fakeroot, but didn't use it in my explanation. JFTR, I also
didn't add to build kernel source and kernel doc packages, since the
image and headers packages are what we usually want.
It might be worth testing if
make-kpkg --rootcmd fakeroot [followed by commands what to do]
does work without issues, since building with root privileges is
frowned upon.
YMMV!
Ralf