Hi Dan! Thanks so much for your description, it already gives me some ideas how to improve things wrt the documentation :-)
On Wednesday, 19 October 2022 23:56:23 CEST Dan Coleman wrote: > use test-patches in debian/bin/test-patches. >From bug 1022025: On Thursday, 20 October 2022 21:48:20 CEST Diederik de Haas wrote: > On Thursday, 20 October 2022 19:53:22 CEST Dan Coleman wrote: > > > Apparently "test-patches" does not build a 'headers-common' package and > > > therefor installing the headers failed which in turn made DKMS fail. > > > > That seems like less-than-ideal behavior for test-patches. > > Is that a bug that would benefit from being reported? I (now) do think it is useful to file a (wishlist) bug against src:linux in which you request improvements to the 'test-patches' script: 1) also creates a headers-common package. > When I finally managed to get the test kernel compiled, I couldn't install > it, either via apt or dpkg. I was told that apt would take care of removing > the dependencies causing the conflict, but it didn't. DKMS wasn't > triggered, it was a mess. 2) make it easy/easier to install the resulting kernel deb, which does not involve removing an existing kernel (meta) package. By setting the 'abiname' 'property' you can achieve that, but I don't know if that idea has been evaluated before and discarded. But the kernel maintainers should be able to answer that. Cheers, Diederik
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