diff --git a/debian/README.Source b/debian/README.Source new file mode 100644 index 0000000..295f5e8 --- /dev/null +++ b/debian/README.Source @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +spl-linux for Debian + +Using DKMS is the recommended way of installing this kernel +module, however if you do have the need of building deb/udeb +packages containing the binary kernel module, here is the way. +Be careful when proceed with this way, as your attention is +required when kernel ABI get changed on target system that this +module needs to be rebuilt and it needs to replace the originally +installed package with this newly built one on target system. + +You may first install all required build dependency on a machine +that runs the very same kernel as on your target system, then +execute following command at the top level directory of the +decompressed debian source package. Do not install the generated +package with kernels that have different configuration, which is +not supported and likely to break things. + + * deb packages: + fakeroot debian/rules override_dh_binary-modules + * udeb packages: + fakeroot debian/rules override_dh_binary-modules-udeb + + -- Aron Xu Sun, 14 July 2013 04:00:12 +0800