Package: kernel-package
Version: 12.013
Severity: minor
Hi.
I think the kernel-pkg.conf contains some bugs:
1)
kernel-pkg.conf - site wide configuration file for make-kpkg
"site wide" should perhaps be dropped, as it can be also per user
(~/.kernel-pkg.conf)
2)
maintainer
Local kernel-* package maintainer. Set up at package installa?
These packages are now named linux-*
3)
pgp
I'm not sure if I understand this wrong, but I think the description
is misleading.
I thought this would be the name that is used or searching the gpg
key, used for any changes-file signings,.. and not just those from the
modules.
btw: What happens if there are multiple keys with the same name? (It
should be possible to select the key via (long)ID, email, etc.
4)
debian The version of the kernel packages, includes both the upstream
...and what?
And why "Set to YES..."??
btw: Why does the description sometimes start in new lines and sometimes not?
5)
config_target
What type of configure step to do. Defaults to oldconfig, which
is good for non-interactive (or minimally interactive) runs.
(ENV variable CONFIG_TARGET overrides this setting.) If the
value of config_target is other than config, oldconfig, menucon?
fig or xconfig then it is reset to oldconfig
Wasn't there an make target gconfig, that should be supported?
6)
root_cmd
Is there a default? Or a list if e.g. fakeroot is not installed but sudo is?
6)
delete_build_link
Is this still supported, now that links are no longer handled?
Wouldn't it be better to generally remove the build link from the
package,.. and only create it via /etc/kernel/ scripts?
7) Shouldn't there be a similar option like delete_source_link?
8)
install_vmlinux
Set to YES to install the uncompressed kernel ELF image along
with the bootable compressed kernel image (vmlinuz). This image
is necessary for profiling kernel and userspace with oprofile
(oprofile.sourceforge.net, i386 only).
Doesn't this also work with other architectures? E.g. amd64?
Best wishes,
Chris.
btw: This issue with CONCURRENCY_LEVEL,... was this now really fixed?
Or just worked around?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-heisenberg (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages kernel-package depends on:
ii binutils 2.19.1-1 The GNU assembler, linker
and bina
ii build-essential 11.4 Informational list of
build-essent
ii debianutils 3.0.2 Miscellaneous utilities
specific t
ii file 5.01-1 Determines file type
using "magic"
ii gettext 0.17-6 GNU Internationalization
utilities
ii make 3.81-5 The GNU version of the
"make" util
ii module-init-tools 3.7-pre9-1 tools for managing Linux
kernel mo
ii po-debconf 1.0.16 tool for managing
templates file t
ii util-linux 2.13.1.1-1 Miscellaneous system utilities
kernel-package recommends no packages.
Versions of packages kernel-package suggests:
ii bzip2 1.0.5-1 high-quality
block-sorting file co
pn docbook-utils <none> (no description available)
ii e2fsprogs 1.41.5-1 ext2/ext3/ext4 file
system utiliti
ii initramfs-tools [linux-in 0.93.2 tools for generating an initramfs
pn libdb3-dev <none> (no description available)
ii libncurses5-dev [libncurs 5.7+20090419-1 developer's libraries and
docs for
ii linux-source-2.6.29 [linu 2.6.29-4 Linux kernel source for
version 2.
pn xmlto <none> (no description available)
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