[Voyage-linux] Compiling kernel and missing control info

[Darshaka Pathirana]

Hi!

On 10/26/2009 09:04 PM, Merul Patel wrote:
> 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?

Did you try:

# make-kpkg clean

before (re)-creating the kernel-image?

Greetings,
 - Darsha