a Debian Question

[Chris Gray]

Hi:

I issued:

make-kpkg clean

as root.  I tried installing fakeroot, but it created problems of its 
own with other Debian packages.  Since the box with Linux is my own, 
it was far easier just to be root than to try and sort out the 
fakeroot problems.

Chris

On Tue, 31 May 2005, Sean McMahon wrote:

> Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 11:38:52 -0700
> From: Sean McMahon <smcmahon at usgs.gov>
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Subject: Re: a Debian Question
> 
> One question, did you issue the command fakeroot make-kpkg clean or make-kpkg
> clean as root?  Fakeroot is a package you need to install.    2.6.11.7 built me
> a working kernel on debian from the kernel source on kernel.org.  I don't know
> what is in sid.Remember when making speakup for 2.6 kernels you do make
> mrproper, then ./install from the speakup source directory, then your prefered
> make config or make menuconfig and finally the make-kpkg commands.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Gray" <chrisg at tsoft.com>
> To: "Speakup with LinuxList" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Monday, May 30, 2005 4:20 PM
> Subject: a Debian Question
>
>
>> 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
>>
>>
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>>
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