BuildYourOwnKernel wiki edit?

[Joseph Salisbury]

On 03/21/2011 06:07 PM, Kamal Mostafa wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 22:50 +0100, David Henningsson wrote:
>>> Yup, debian/rules just a makefile -- multiple targets works fine.  Even
>>> something like this works:
>>>
>>>      fakeroot debian/rules clean binary-headers binary-generic
>>>                            ^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> I'm not actually recommending combining clean with the other targets
> (since what's the point? and it seems weird to do) -- just pointing out
> that normal Makefile rules apply here.
>
>> Hmm, this seems dangerous to me, at least in combination with the "-j"
>> switch. Isn't there a possibility that clean will run in parallel with
>> the binary targets, or should this prevented inside the makefiles somehow?
>
> I don't think anything in the debian/rules file(s) protect against it,
> so you're probably right that this would be unsafe to use with -j.
>
> FWIW, I never use -j with the kernel build... The build parallelizes
> itself very nicely without my help, due to some internal magic that I
> haven't looked into very deeply.
>
>   -Kamal
>
>

I noticed that the wiki describes how to append a version or unique name 
to a custom kernel when using fakeroot make-kpkg(fakeroot make-kpkg 
--initrd --append-to-version=-some-string-here).

However, I don't see any information that explains how to do this with 
fakeroot debian/rules.  Should there be a section added to explain how 
to do this?

Thanks,

Joe