| To: | "'Andreas Stagl'" <a.stagl,AT,gmx,DOT,at> |
| Subject: | RE: Cipe on Debian |
| From: | "Mark Smith" <mark.smith,AT,avcosystems,DOT,co,DOT,uk> |
| Date: | Wed, 27 Aug 2003 10:35:03 +0100 |
| Cc: | "Cipe list \(E-mail\)" <cipe-l,AT,inka,DOT,de> |
| Importance: | Normal |
| In-reply-to: | <5.1.0.14.2.20030826122830.0294c428@pop.gmx.at> |
Andreas, (Copied to the list again for completeness) > Just for info: "uname -r" provides the following info... > Linux debian001 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 unknown That appears to be the output from "uname -a", the output from "uname -r" should be 2.4.18-bf2.4 > So, which one should I take... 2.4.18-13 or 2.4.18-5.... and anyhow, how > can I find out which "minor-version" (like 5 or 13 in this example) is > running on my sytem? My document describes the procedure for determining the source version from the kernel image changelog as found in /usr/share/doc/kernel-image-2.4.18-bf2.4/changelog.gz I would expect this to be built from 2.4.18-5 if you haven't upgraded your kernel to the version available from the Debian security update site. > And how shall I download the package... using "apt-get source" or "apt-get > install". I'm asking this, because "apt-get install" would also install > some still not installed packages like binutils, bzip2 and so on. I picked the source using dselect, so I'm guessing that's comparable to something like apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.18 which will indeed pull in other packages. You probably do want kernel-package to provide "make-kpkg" to create /usr/src/linux/debian initially and populate it with a changelog. > Do you have any suggestion, where I shall put the sources? Can't I directly > put them into /usr/src/linux? The Debian policy installs a tar.bz2 in /usr/src which unpacks to /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18 including sub directories, after which you want to create a symlink to /usr/src/linux. If you really prefer to rename this to /usr/src/linux then I don't see why you can't, but I do recommend using the symlink instead. > Sorry for asking this, but how do I add a symbolic link?!? You want to run something like the following, in /usr/src ln -s kernel-source-2.4.18 linux Hope this helps, -- Mark Smith - Avco Systems Ltd email: mark.smith,AT,avcosystems,DOT,co,DOT,uk Tel: +44 (0)1784 430996 Fax: +44 (0)1784 431078