Mark Allums wrote : [snip] >>> You must have the deb-src line in /etc/apt/sources.list : >>> >>> deb http://kernel-archive.buildserver.net/debian-kernel trunk main >>> deb-src http://kernel-archive.buildserver.net/debian-kernel trunk main >>> >>> To be able to compile, instal build-essentials. >>> >>> $ apt-get source linux-kbuild-2.6-2.6.28 >>> $ cd linux-kbuild-2.6-2.6.28 >>> $ dpkg-buildpackage >>> $ cd .. >>> $ dpkg -i linux-kbuild-2.6.28_2.6.28-1~snapshot.12595_amd64.deb >>> >>> After that, you can install linux-headers-2.6.28-1-amd64, >>> and m-a a-i nvidia ... > > > Thank you very much. I missed that thread. > > It still begs some questions. Why don't they build/package a normal > kbuild that matches the dependency that the kernel header package has? > > I suppose that it will enter mainstream, instead of being in > kernel-archive, and then there will be a kbuild infrastructure. Maybe > it is too much work for the relatively few people who roll their own > custom kernel. But a lot of people use that NVidia blob. And other > hardware drivers that need compiling. > > Mark > I don't know about that, but I just checked with the 2.6.28 which is in unstable and it doesn't seem to have it's ready made corresponding kbuild either, at least aptitude didn't find it for me...
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