How does linux-headers get packaged?

[Stefan Bader]

On 21.08.2017 12:49, Joel Fernandes wrote:
> Hi,
> After much digging I could find the recipe for Ubuntu's linux-headers
> packages (linux-headers-4.4.0-83 on Xenial) uses.
> 
> I believe these headers are not the same ones that come from 'make
> headers_install' in the kernel sources, but are specially packaged
> version of the ever-changing kernel API and used for kernel module
> building.
> 
> Could anyone point me to the recipe/scripts used for this?

If you have the debianized source (./debian[.master] exists), run

fakeroot debian/rules clean
fakeroot debian/rules binary-headers

which generates the common headers (*all*deb)

You need the specific headers generated by

fakeroot debian/rules binary-(generic|lowlatency)

as well.

Or just do a complete build with

[depending on where you get the source from maybe needs a
 fakeroot debian/rules clean
 before]
dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc -us

which takes long but gets you all packages generated by a kernel
build. The dpkg-buildpackage variant also has the advantage that
it will check and report build-dependencies.

-Stefan
> 
> thanks a lot!
> 
> -Joel
> 


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