Building custom flavours fails for 2.6.27-5.8

[Tetsuo Handa]

Binary package hint: linux-source-2.6.27

Hello.

I'm experiencing similar problem reported at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+bug/261708 .

2.6.27-5.8 refers a nonexistent directory linux-2.6.27/debian/abi/2.6.27-5.8/ .
Only previous version's linux-2.6.27/debian/abi/2.6.27-4.7/ directory exists.

I'm doing

  ln -s 2.6.27-4.7/ debian/abi/2.6.27-5.8

as a workaround.

Why current version's directory is missing?

Regards.

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

Are you sure your git tree is up to date? What command(s) are you using the build the custom flavor?

Examining the git tree I have here it looks like debian/abi/2.6.27-5.8 exists:

ogasawara@yoji:~/ubuntu-intrepid$ ls debian/abi/2.6.27-5.8
abiname amd64 i386

[Tetsuo Handa (9-launchpad-i-love-sakura-ne-jp)]

Sorry.
As of my first report, 2.6.27-5.8 was the current and 2.6.27-4.7 was the previous.
As of this report, 2.6.27-6.9 is the current and 2.6.27-5.8 is the previous.

It seems that I was missing some preparations before building custom flavours.
I tried to build "generic" flavour kernel, and debian/abi/2.6.27-6.9/ was created at runtime.
So, linux_2.6.27-6.9.tar.gz has only debian/abi/2.6.27-5.8/ directory,
but it isn't a bug that debian/abi/2.6.27-6.9/ is missing.

Please close this topic.

By the way, it is a regrettable thing for me that Intrepid removed support for binary-custom infrastructure ( debian/binary-custom.d/ ).
My patch modifies include/linux/sched.h , forcing me to install customized linux-headers-2.6.27-6_2.6.27-6.9_all.deb which contains modified include/linux/sched.h , for ./usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.27-6-custom/include/linux/sched.h in linux-headers-2.6.27-6-custom_2.6.27-6.9_i386.deb is a symlink to ../../../linux-headers-2.6.27-6/include/linux/sched.h instead of modified include/linux/sched.h itself.
And after I install customized linux-headers-2.6.27-6_2.6.27-6.9_all.deb which contains modified include/linux/sched.h , update manager warns that original linux-headers-2.6.27-6_2.6.27-6.9_all.deb which contains original include/linux/sched.h is available. Ouch!

Thanks.
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root@tomoyo:~# cd /usr/src/
root@tomoyo:/usr/src# VERSION=`uname -r | cut -d - -f 1,2`
root@tomoyo:/usr/src# echo $VERSION
2.6.27-6
root@tomoyo:/usr/src# apt-get source linux-image-${VERSION}-generic
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
NOTICE: 'linux' packaging is maintained in the 'Git' version control system at:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git-repos/ubuntu/ubuntu-intrepid
Skipping already downloaded file 'linux_2.6.27-6.9.dsc'
Skipping already downloaded file 'linux_2.6.27-6.9.tar.gz'
Need to get 0B of source archives.
dpkg-source: extracting linux in linux-2.6.27
dpkg-source: info: unpacking linux_2.6.27-6.9.tar.gz
root@tomoyo:/usr/src# cd linux-2.6.27/
root@tomoyo:/usr/src/linux-2.6.27# ls -l debian/abi/
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2008-10-07 11:19 2.6.27-5.8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 71 2008-10-07 11:19 perm-blacklist
root@tomoyo:/usr/src/linux-2.6.27# export CONCURRENCY_LEVEL=`grep -c '^processor' /proc/cpuinfo`
root@tomoyo:/usr/src/linux-2.6.27# debian/rules binary-debs flavours=generic
Preparing generic...
install -d /usr/src/linux-2.6.27/debian/build/build-generic
touch /usr/src/linux-2.6.27/debian/build/build-generic/ubuntu-build
cat /usr/src/linux-2.6.27/debian/config/i386/config /usr/src/linux-2.6.27/debian/config/i386/config.generic | sed -e 's/.*CONFIG_VERSION_SIGNATURE.*/CONFIG_VERSION_SIGNATURE="Ubuntu 2.6.27-6.9-generic"/' > /usr/src/linux-2.6.27/debian/build/build-generic/.config
find /usr/src/linux-2.6.27/debian/build/build-generic -name "*.ko" | xargs rm -f
make ARCH=i386 EXTRAVERSION=-6-generic CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y SUBLEVEL=27 O=/usr/src/linux-2.6.27/debian/build/build-generic silentoldconfig prepare scripts
(...snipped...)
II: Done
install -d /usr/src/linux-2.6.27/debian/abi/2.6.27-6.9/i386
find /usr/src/linux-2.6.27/debian/build/build-generic/ -name \*.ko | \
...