a Debian Question

[Sean McMahon]

Last I checked, you can install kernel-tree and that will install kernel-source,
but installing kernel-source packages will not install kernel-tree.  What is
kernel-tree used for?  I've made kernels without it while using kernel-source.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenny Hitt" <kenny at hittsjunk.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, May 30, 2005 7:03 PM
Subject: Re: a Debian Question


> Hi.
>
> I have a 2.6.11.7 kernel running with speakup.  I decided to use the
> kernel.org sources instead of the Debian source.  Make-kpkg worked fine
> for building it.
> There is a Sid kernel-source-2.6.11 available, but I haven't tried to
> patch it with speakup or build it.
>
> It sounds like the make-kpkg script is looking for some files it expects
> and isn't finding them.  Unfortunately, I don't know what files might be
> missing.
> You might want to check and see if the kernel-tree package got
> installed.  It should have been installed with the kernel-source, but
> you never know.
>
>
> Hope this helps.
>           Kenny
>
> On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 04:20:44PM -0700, Chris Gray wrote:
> > Hi:
> >
> > I hope you will forgive a Debian-specific question here.  However, I'd like
> > to ask a few things about Debian kernels.  First, it looks to me as though
> > 2.6.10 is the most current.  If I were to try and use it for Speak-up, is
> > it really the most recent, and stable?  If there are more recent SID
> > kernels that people have working with Speak-up, please let me know where to
> > find them.
> >
> > I've gotten 2.6.10, to practice on if nothing else, and when I issue the
> > command
> >
> > make-kpkg clean
> >
> > from usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.10 I get a message saying "We do not seem to
> > be in a top-level kernel source directory tree". Does anybody know what
> > this message means?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Chris
> >
> >
> > ----------------------------------------
> > Chris Gray
> >
> >
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