[ILUG] Debian or Fedora?

[Rick Moen]

Quoting kevin lyda (kevin+dated+1073915707.a5d2af at ie.suberic.net):

> i think the war you do it is take the closest src.rpm plug in the new
> kernel and rebuild.  i've done it in the past - keeping an eye on the
> results of patch (etc) - and it fits in quite nicely.

That's definitely the way I'd do it on Fedora.  Works great.

> the same thing could be done in debian i suspect.

Debian provides the rather nice make-kpkg tool (provided by the
kernel-package package), which is a wrapper for compiling kernels from
source and making an installable .deb from it, putting the .config file
as "config-nn.nn.nn" in /boot, etc.  Link "Information" on
http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Debian has details.
 
> obviously i'm putting a useful post in the middle of a my distro is
> better than your distro thread so i'm pretty much an idiot here...

Too true.

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