Kernel build: "I am confused by this discrepancy, and am halting."
 

Hello,

I'm trying to build a new kernel. I currently have the default kernel included when I recently installed the system (SID): 2.6.26

I'm trying to build kernel 2.6.27.1 and get the following error:

debian:/usr/src/linux# make-kpkg --revision=linux-2.6.27.1 kernel_image kernel_headers
I note that you are using the --revision flag with the value
linux-2.6.27.1.
However, the ./debian/changelog file exists, and has a different value
2.6.
I am confused by this discrepancy, and am halting.

I'm not sure what is happening. I don't remember getting this error on other SID systems when I've tried to do the same thing.

Help Appreciated,

pb

From what source are you building? The kernel.org guys have 2.6.27.7 as latest stable release. If you build from the Debian source, did you apply all patches available?

Thanks for your response. This is a learning exercise for me- its been a while since I've installed a new kernel from scratch. I downloaded 2.6.27.1 from kernel.org so that I could try my hand at configuring it, building it, installing it and then patch it up to version 2.6.27.7 Hope this info helps.

Thanks Again,

pb

1. You need to start out with 'make-kpkg clean', then double-check to see that the 'timestamp' files no longer exist (I can't remember the names of these timestamp files now).

2. Create your config file; the best way is:
- copy /boot/config-whatever to the source directory as .config
- run 'make oldconfig' and configure the kernel - NOTE: 'make', *not* 'make-kpkg'
- make a copy of that .config file somewhere else in case all your effort is ruined if you make a mistake and make-kpkg nukes the file

3. Invoke the config via make-kpkg - here you call "make-kpkg config" with all other options for revisions and so on; since you should already have done the config in (2), this should run through pretty quick and just generate a few config and timestamp files.

4. Invoke make-kpkg to build