Hi.
According to apt-cache:
Description: Linux kernel source tree for building Debian kernel images
This meta package is used as a build dependency of Debian
kernel-image packages to prevent a version discrepancy between
the kernel-image and corresponding kernel-sources packages in the
fast-moving unstable archive. The package's dependency relations
are structured so that a kernel-image package's build
dependencies can always be satisfied, even if the kernel-source
package that had been used to compile the image has been
superseeded by a newer Debian revision since the last build.
.
The package provides a list of virtual packages, corresponding
to
Debian revisions of a kernel-source package. The Debian
kernel-patch contains the information needed to roll back
the
current kernel-source to any of the revisions identified by
the
provided virtual packages. Therefore, the kernel-tree
package
ensures the availability of the kernel source tree
corresponding
to each of the virtual packages listed.
.
The package serves no purpose outside of the Debian
build and
archive infrastructure.
Like you, I've built kernels without it, but I mostly
use sources from kernel.org instead of the Debian
kernel-source packages.
When I've build packages with Debian source, it is
usually after doing something like
apt-get source kernel-image-2.6-k7
Kenny
On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 11:40:59AM -0700, Sean McMahon wrote:
> Last I checked, you can install kernel-tree and that will install kernel-source,
> but installing kernel-source packages will not install kernel-tree. What is
> kernel-tree used for? I've made kernels without it while using kernel-source.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kenny Hitt" <kenny at hittsjunk.net>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Monday, May 30, 2005 7:03 PM
> Subject: Re: a Debian Question
>
>
> > Hi.
> >
> > I have a 2.6.11.7 kernel running with speakup. I decided to use the
> > kernel.org sources instead of the Debian source. Make-kpkg worked fine
> > for building it.
> > There is a Sid kernel-source-2.6.11 available, but I haven't tried to
> > patch it with speakup or build it.
> >
> > It sounds like the make-kpkg script is looking for some files it expects
> > and isn't finding them. Unfortunately, I don't know what files might be
> > missing.
> > You might want to check and see if the kernel-tree package got
> > installed. It should have been installed with the kernel-source, but
> > you never know.
> >
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> > Kenny
> >
