From 2113b963f473ed693d4e8e6cee9ab82ca67bca78 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andres Salomon Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 00:33:09 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] add some initial docs on building kernel images from raw materials (that is, a tarball from kernel.org, and this svn repo). svn path=/trunk/kernel/source/linux-kernel-2.6.12/; revision=3435 --- debian/README.build | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) create mode 100644 debian/README.build diff --git a/debian/README.build b/debian/README.build new file mode 100644 index 000000000..5713a869f --- /dev/null +++ b/debian/README.build @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +Building kernels from SVN (for official images): + +1) Start by downloading a kernel tarball from kernel.org (ie, +linux-2.6.12.tar.bz2). +2) Run trunk/scripts/prune-non-free . This will produce two +additional tarballs; linux-kernel-.orig.tar.gz and +linux-kernel-nonfree-.orig.tar.gz. Ignore the nonfree tarball +for now. +3) Unpack linux-kernel-.orig.tar.gz, cd into the new directory, +and do a 'svn export' to get the debian/ subdirectory.