Lars Ellenberg wrote:

> / 2003-12-17 12:03:07 -0500
> \ Adam Kosmin:
>> Ok sounds good. Is KDIR mentioned anywhere in the documentation?
> 
> we should add it to the ./README, I guess...
> 
> someone out there who wants to review and improve the attached
> ./INSTALL maybe?

For Debian, IMHO it makes a lot of sense to make a .deb package:

>/tmp/drbd-0.6.10# dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -b

creates drbd_*.deb, drbd-source_*.deb and kernel-patch-wup_*.deb.
drbd-source_*.deb only contains /usr/src/linux/drbd.tar.gz, which must be
unpacked and recompiled with the target kernel.

>/tmp# dpkg -i drbd*deb                                 # install them all
>/tmp# cd /usr/src/linux ; tar xvzf drbd.tar.gz
>/usr/src/linux# make menuconfig
>/usr/src/linux# make-kpkg --bzimage --revision $FOO binary-arch
modules_image

creates kernel-image*deb, kernel-headers*deb, and drbd-module*deb, in my
case (applied reiserfs data-logging patches and changed EXTRAVERSION in the
Makefile to my initials, also used --revision jb1 on the make-kpkg command
line :)

>drbd-module-2.4.23-jb-gr+r_0.6.10-1+jb1_i386.deb
>kernel-headers-2.4.23-jb-gr+r_jb1_i386.deb
>kernel-image-2.4.23-jb-gr+r_jb1_i386.deb

These can be installed on any computer now.

$FOO can be anything you want, like '01' or 'jb1' (which I use). It's the
kernel revision number for your build. IF you build later .deb packages
with the same kernel version, you can use

>dch -i 'added $foo patches/configure items/whatever'

to update the Debian changelog in the kernel source directory and then just
rebuild the kernel image. It will auto-replace the running kernel on
installation.

If you build another .deb with a different _version_, it will not replace
the running kernel. See kernel-package documentation for that.

Trust me, it's much cleaner and easier (also to upgrade) machines this way.
Especially if you have several machines to upgrade, which is _always_ the
case when running drbd, as that's the whole point. :)

-- 
ciao - Jens Benecke

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