a Debian Question

[Kenny Hitt]

Hi.

According to apt-cache:

Description: Linux kernel source tree for building Debian kernel images
 This meta package is used as a build dependency of Debian
  kernel-image packages to prevent a version discrepancy between
   the kernel-image and corresponding kernel-sources packages in the
    fast-moving unstable archive. The package's dependency relations
     are structured so that a kernel-image package's build
      dependencies can always be satisfied, even if the kernel-source
       package that had been used to compile the image has been
        superseeded by a newer Debian revision since the last build.
	 .
	  The package provides a list of virtual packages, corresponding
	  to
	   Debian revisions of a kernel-source package. The Debian
	    kernel-patch contains the information needed to roll back
	    the
	     current kernel-source to any of the revisions identified by
	     the
	      provided virtual packages. Therefore, the kernel-tree
	      package
	       ensures the availability of the kernel source tree
	       corresponding
	        to each of the virtual packages listed.
		 .
		  The package serves no purpose outside of the Debian
		  build and
		   archive infrastructure.
		   
		   Like you, I've built kernels without it, but I mostly
		   use sources from kernel.org instead of the Debian
		   kernel-source packages.
		   When I've build packages with Debian source, it is
		   usually after doing something like

		   apt-get source kernel-image-2.6-k7

		             Kenny
			     
On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 11:40:59AM -0700, Sean McMahon wrote:
> 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
> >