Re: make rpm

Kai Henningsen (kaih@khms.westfalen.de)
29 Jul 2001 10:22:00 +0200


pfaffben@msu.edu (Ben Pfaff) wrote on 28.07.01 in <87g0bg7ded.fsf@pfaffben.user.msu.edu>:

> Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:
>
> > I've been meaning to do this one for a while and I now have it working so
> > that with my current -ac kernel working tree I can type
> >
> > make rpm
> >
> > and out puts kernel-2.4.7ac3-1.i386.rpm
> >
> > All this took was the pieces below.
> >
> > Anyone care to knock up a "make dpkg" to go with it ?
>
> Debian has had a package that does this for years now. It's
> called `kernel-package' and works through a program called
> `make-kpkg' that does all sorts of nice things. Using
> kernel-package, you could implement `make dpkg' as a single
> command: `make-kpkg kernel_image'.

Well, kernel-package certainly could do with more publicity. There are
still many Debian users who don't know about it.

MfG Kai
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