[Voyage-linux] Compiling kernel and missing control info

[Jordi Soucheiron]

Hi!
Do you really need the .deb package? Wouldn't it be enough to install
the kernel using the kernel makefile (running make install)? If you do
so you may need to manually create an initrd and execute update-grub.

2009/10/26 Merul Patel <merul.patel at gmail.com>:
> I'm trying to recompile the 2.6.26 voyage kernel and enable HFS+ support (I
> want to mount a Mac partition) but I'm running into an odd issue with the
> Debian control file.
>
> I've installed the kernel source from the deb package at
> http://www.voyage.hk/dists/0.6/linux/linux-source-2.6.26-voyage_6.0-3_all.deb,
> and manually pulled the kernel config file from
> http://mirror.voyage.hk/download/kernel_config/config-2.6.26-486-voyage_6.0-3
>
> As I'm compiling on the target box (an Alix board) with limited free space,
> I've extracted the kernel source on /tmp/sd and symlinked from /usr/src.
>
> I then ran 'make menuconfig' and enabled built-in kernel support for HFS+
> filesystems.
>
> When I run:
>
> make-kpkg --revision="6.0-3Custom" --append-to-version "-486-voyage"
> kernel-image --rootcmd fakeroot --initrd
>
> The compilation completes successfully (as does a plain 'make') but the deb
> packaging fails with:
>
> dpkg-gencontrol -DArchitecture=i386 -isp             \
>                        -plinux-image-2.6.26-486-voyage
> -P/usr/src/linux/debian/linux-image-2.6.26-486-voyage/
> dpkg-gencontrol: error: package linux-image-2.6.26-486-voyage not in control
> info
> make[2]: *** [debian/stamp/binary/linux-image-2.6.26-486-voyage] Error 255
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/sd/linux-source-2.6.26-voyage'
> make[1]: *** [debian/stamp/binary/pre-linux-image-2.6.26-486-voyage] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/sd/linux-source-2.6.26-voyage'
> make: *** [kernel-image] Error 2
>
> I saw a similar post in the archives
> (http://www.mail-archive.com/voyage-linux@list.voyage.hk/msg03244.html), but
> with no solution to the actual issue with the control file. Any suggestions?
>
> I've also tried this on a virtual machine with the same result.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Mez
>
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