Re: Building a Kernel - Debian Sarge

Jeff Gaines wrote:

> The key question is do I stick with the Debian kernel source, which is
> 2.6.8 (from memory) or go for the latest 2.16.15.1 from
> http://www.kernel.org/ ?

If you stick with the Debian kernel-source and kernel-image packages,
then when security flaws are discovered, you should get automatic
updates from the Debian security repository. This is a strong advantage.

> Also if I do d/l and use the latest source does it 'break' the package
> management in Debian, which I find enormously useful? In fact does it
> stop being a Debian install and become something else?

It shouldn't really "break" apt. You won't have a kernel-source package
corresponding to the upstream source you've installed in /usr/src/linux,
but when you use make-kpkg, you will get a kernel-image .deb for
2.6.15.1 which will satisfy any dependencies of software on a 2.6 kernel
(for example, module-init-tools).

Dave

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