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Asked: 2012-07-25 04:21:34 +0800 CST

How to package a custom kernel for Debian?

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I've build a custom linux kernel from the vanilla source tree using the deb-pkg target:

make deb-pkg

After that package has been built I've got several .deb files. However I'd like to upload those files to a private repository which is managed by reprepro. I need a .changes file for that. I could generated the changes file with

dpkg-genchanges

This in turn needs a .dsc file which I don't have.

How do I generated a .dsc (and .changes) file from a vanilla linux source tree from which I've build .deb packages using make deb-pkg?

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  1. I don't believe make deb-pkg gives you a source package, only a binary package, so there isn't really a .dsc file to be had.

    To generate a changes file that you can use to upload to reprepro, use the changestool program that comes with reprepro:

    changestool --create-with-all-fields kernel.changes add <deb-file>

    You may need to edit the resulting changes file to fill out a few more things, like the target distribution, before reprepro is happy, but it should get you most of the way there.

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