Re: Why compiling.

2012-08-01 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 31 iul 12, 13:21:40, Celejar wrote: From where? Your network is down and your other machine runs on a custom kernel. Plug the regular machine straight into the internet connection (cable modem) and grab an appropriate kernel. Devil's advocate mode: sorry, your ISP requires

Re: Why compiling.

2012-08-01 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 1 Aug 2012 19:32:15 +0300 Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Ma, 31 iul 12, 13:21:40, Celejar wrote: From where? Your network is down and your other machine runs on a custom kernel. Plug the regular machine straight into the internet connection (cable

Re: Why compiling.

2012-07-31 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 11 Jul 2012 09:05:02 +0300 Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Ma, 10 iul 12, 22:50:02, Celejar wrote: On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 23:22:46 +0300 Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: Not quite sure I get you - if my hypothetical router (running x86 HW, not like

Re: Why compiling.

2012-07-31 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 11 Jul 2012 09:04:44 -0400 Gary Dale garyd...@rogers.com wrote: On 10/07/12 11:28 PM, Celejar wrote: On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 23:21:37 -0400 Gary Dalegaryd...@rogers.com wrote: On 10/07/12 10:52 PM, Celejar wrote: On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 19:20:05 -0400 Gary Dalegaryd...@rogers.com

Re: Why compiling.

2012-07-13 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Atıf CEYLAN wrote: For example, my wireless card is not supported by debian wheezy standart kernel. Also non-free package is not working. So I compile it from source code and I change some part of the code (because some part of code is not working with my hardware). So I must make

Re: Why compiling.

2012-07-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 10 iul 12, 22:50:02, Celejar wrote: On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 23:22:46 +0300 Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: Not quite sure I get you - if my hypothetical router (running x86 HW, not like my actual routers that run OpenWRT on arm, and that don't have lots of extra MB to

Re: Why compiling.

2012-07-11 Thread Dom
On 11/07/12 01:06, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 08:54 -0700, Mike McClain wrote: Howdy, On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 05:03:12PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: why people do compiling. i have heard many time that people are compiling kernel on debian. what is the reason for this?

Re: Why compiling.

2012-07-11 Thread Atıf CEYLAN
On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 19:15 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Gary Dale garyd...@rogers.com wrote: On 10/07/12 08:03 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: This is a very basic question but confusing me for very long. so i need your help. why people do

Re: Why compiling.

2012-07-11 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2012/7/10 Muhammad Yousuf Khan sir...@gmail.com This is a very basic question but confusing me for very long. so i need your help. why people do compiling. i have heard many time that people are compiling kernel on debian. what is the reason for this? i am using debian for almost 1.5 year

Re: Why compiling.

2012-07-11 Thread Gary Dale
On 10/07/12 11:28 PM, Celejar wrote: On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 23:21:37 -0400 Gary Dalegaryd...@rogers.com wrote: On 10/07/12 10:52 PM, Celejar wrote: On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 19:20:05 -0400 Gary Dalegaryd...@rogers.com wrote: ... Having a portable kernel is a lot simpler than trying to rescue a

Re: Why compiling.

2012-07-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-07-11 at 09:04 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: The reason machine A is not bootable is because a minor hardware change is capable of doing that with a custom kernel. +1 I almost exclusively use self-build kernels only, because I need them, but I don't drop too much hardware support,

Re: [OT] Re: Why compiling.

2012-07-11 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Dienstag, 10. Juli 2012 schrieb Camaleón: i have heard many time that people are compiling kernel on debian. That's a good example. I wanted to have a 3.5-rc5 kernel for testing. And it did compile in about 10 minutes here. ;) There is no need to tough, if you happy with packages just

Re: Why compiling.

2012-07-11 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Dienstag, 10. Juli 2012 schrieb Gary Dale: People who prepare the individual packages or distributions are usually the only ones who need to compile code. However, some brave/foolhardy souls must have the latest code from the developer's source and compile their own. This is invariably a

Re: Why compiling.

2012-07-11 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hallo Andrei, Am Dienstag, 10. Juli 2012 schrieb Andrei POPESCU: On Ma, 10 iul 12, 15:08:52, Celejar wrote: And why do I care whether the kernel I compile locally for a specific machine is portable? Imagine a situation where due to whatever reason the kernel image of your router machine

Re: [OT] Re: Why compiling.

2012-07-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-07-11 at 20:46 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: I did not yet compile a complete KDE Even compiling something simple as e17 without using a script is a PITA :D. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Why compiling.

2012-07-11 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 11. Juli 2012 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: On Wed, 2012-07-11 at 09:04 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: The reason machine A is not bootable is because a minor hardware change is capable of doing that with a custom kernel. +1 I almost exclusively use self-build kernels only, because I

Re: Why compiling.

2012-07-11 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 11. Juli 2012 schrieb Andrei POPESCU: why should my work machine kernel need to be appropriate for my router? A stock kernel should work for both. IMHO, even if you do use custom kernels, it's probably a good idea to keep a stock kernel around for backup and

Re: Why compiling.

2012-07-11 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 11. Juli 2012 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 08:54 -0700, Mike McClain wrote: Howdy, On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 05:03:12PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: why people do compiling. i have heard many time that people are compiling kernel on debian. what is

Re: Why compiling.

2012-07-11 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 11. Juli 2012 schrieb Kumar Appaiah: On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 08:54:29AM -0700, Mike McClain wrote: The kernel provided when you install Linux, Debian included, has to work on nearly every system out there so it includes drivers for nearly piece of hardware that can be installed

Re: Why compiling.

2012-07-11 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 11. Juli 2012 schrieb Raffaele Morelli: 2012/7/10 Muhammad Yousuf Khan sir...@gmail.com This is a very basic question but confusing me for very long. so i need your help. why people do compiling. i have heard many time that people are compiling kernel on debian. what

Re: [OT] Re: Why compiling.

2012-07-11 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 11. Juli 2012 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: On Wed, 2012-07-11 at 20:46 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: I did not yet compile a complete KDE Even compiling something simple as e17 without using a script is a PITA :D. I don´t think that building KDE SC would be that complex, there are

Re: [OT] Re: Why compiling.

2012-07-11 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 11. Juli 2012 schrieb Martin Steigerwald: Am Mittwoch, 11. Juli 2012 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: On Wed, 2012-07-11 at 20:46 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: I did not yet compile a complete KDE Even compiling something simple as e17 without using a script is a PITA :D.

Re: Why compiling.

2012-07-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-07-11 at 21:11 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: martin@merkaba:~ ls -lh /boot/{vm,init}* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14M Jul 3 16:39 /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-3-amd64 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14M Jul 3 16:39 /boot/initrd.img-3.4-trunk-amd64 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8,8M Jul 3 16:39

Re: Why compiling.

2012-07-10 Thread Kousik Maiti
People do compilation for many reason. They want to learn more. They want to run packages from source code. If you are going to compile kernel from source you can learn more details about kernel. On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan sir...@gmail.comwrote: This is a very basic

Re: Why compiling.

2012-07-10 Thread Gary Dale
On 10/07/12 08:03 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: This is a very basic question but confusing me for very long. so i need your help. why people do compiling. i have heard many time that people are compiling kernel on debian. what is the reason for this? i am using debian for almost 1.5 year and

Re: Why compiling.

2012-07-10 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Gary Dale garyd...@rogers.com wrote: On 10/07/12 08:03 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: This is a very basic question but confusing me for very long. so i need your help. why people do compiling. i have heard many time that people are compiling kernel on

[OT] Re: Why compiling.

2012-07-10 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 17:03:12 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: This is a very basic question but confusing me for very long. so i need your help. why people do compiling. For many reasons but mainly because there are no binaries available for your system and you have to get the sources

Re: [OT] Re: Why compiling.

2012-07-10 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 17:03:12 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: This is a very basic question but confusing me for very long. so i need your help. why people do compiling. For many reasons but mainly because there are no

Re: Why compiling.

2012-07-10 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 09:55:23 -0400 Gary Dale garyd...@rogers.com wrote: On 10/07/12 08:03 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: This is a very basic question but confusing me for very long. so i need your help. why people do compiling. i have heard many time that people are compiling kernel

Re: Why compiling.

2012-07-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 17:03 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: [snip] i have heard many time that people are compiling kernel on debian. Some kernels with special patches are not always available for Debian. Sometimes e.g. a kernel-rt is available, but sometimes it isn't. If e.g. a kernel-rt

Re: Why compiling.

2012-07-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 21:33 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 17:03 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: [snip] i have heard many time that people are compiling kernel on debian. Some kernels with special patches are not always available for Debian. Sometimes e.g. a kernel-rt

Re: Why compiling.

2012-07-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 10 iul 12, 15:08:52, Celejar wrote: And why do I care whether the kernel I compile locally for a specific machine is portable? Imagine a situation where due to whatever reason the kernel image of your router machine gets corrupted, then you can just copy the file from another machine

Re: Why compiling.

2012-07-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 10 iul 12, 21:33:51, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I compile software myself for at least three reasons. 1. In the past I often was a tester for e.g. Qtractor and I plan to do it in the future again. It also is needed, if you wish to do translations. Until now I never finished a translation.

Re: Why compiling.

2012-07-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 23:28 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 10 iul 12, 21:33:51, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I compile software myself for at least three reasons. 1. In the past I often was a tester for e.g. Qtractor and I plan to do it in the future again. It also is needed, if you wish to

Re: Why compiling.

2012-07-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 22:43 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 23:28 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 10 iul 12, 21:33:51, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I compile software myself for at least three reasons. 1. In the past I often was a tester for e.g. Qtractor and I plan to do

Re: Why compiling.

2012-07-10 Thread Gary Dale
On 10/07/12 04:22 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 10 iul 12, 15:08:52, Celejar wrote: And why do I care whether the kernel I compile locally for a specific machine is portable? Imagine a situation where due to whatever reason the kernel image of your router machine gets corrupted, then you

Re: Why compiling.

2012-07-10 Thread Mike McClain
Howdy, On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 05:03:12PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: why people do compiling. i have heard many time that people are compiling kernel on debian. what is the reason for this? i am using debian for almost 1.5 year and have been using it on different platform in CLI

Re: Why compiling.

2012-07-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 08:54 -0700, Mike McClain wrote: Howdy, On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 05:03:12PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: why people do compiling. i have heard many time that people are compiling kernel on debian. what is the reason for this? i am using debian for almost 1.5

Re: Why compiling.

2012-07-10 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 11 Jul 2012 02:06:02 +0200 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 08:54 -0700, Mike McClain wrote: Howdy, On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 05:03:12PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: why people do compiling. i have heard many time that people are

Re: Why compiling.

2012-07-10 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 23:22:46 +0300 Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Ma, 10 iul 12, 15:08:52, Celejar wrote: And why do I care whether the kernel I compile locally for a specific machine is portable? Imagine a situation where due to whatever reason the kernel image of

Re: Why compiling.

2012-07-10 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 19:20:05 -0400 Gary Dale garyd...@rogers.com wrote: On 10/07/12 04:22 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 10 iul 12, 15:08:52, Celejar wrote: And why do I care whether the kernel I compile locally for a specific machine is portable? Imagine a situation where due to

Re: Why compiling.

2012-07-10 Thread Gary Dale
On 10/07/12 10:52 PM, Celejar wrote: On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 19:20:05 -0400 Gary Dalegaryd...@rogers.com wrote: On 10/07/12 04:22 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 10 iul 12, 15:08:52, Celejar wrote: And why do I care whether the kernel I compile locally for a specific machine is portable?

Re: Why compiling.

2012-07-10 Thread Gary Dale
On 10/07/12 10:47 PM, Celejar wrote: On Wed, 11 Jul 2012 02:06:02 +0200 Ralf Mardorfralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 08:54 -0700, Mike McClain wrote: Howdy, On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 05:03:12PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: why people do compiling. i have heard

Re: Why compiling.

2012-07-10 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 23:21:37 -0400 Gary Dale garyd...@rogers.com wrote: On 10/07/12 10:52 PM, Celejar wrote: On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 19:20:05 -0400 Gary Dalegaryd...@rogers.com wrote: ... Having a portable kernel is a lot simpler than trying to rescue a non-bootable machine from a live

Re: Why compiling.

2012-07-10 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 08:54:29AM -0700, Mike McClain wrote: The kernel provided when you install Linux, Debian included, has to work on nearly every system out there so it includes drivers for nearly piece of hardware that can be installed in a PC. I always compile a kernel with only the