Custom kernel build - best way to generate a package

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>]

Hi all,

as indicated before, I'm looking into providing a framework for isar to
help users with building their own kernel packages from un-debianized
kernel sources. I'm now scratching my head how to do that best. Options
I'Ve found so far:

1. make bindeb-pkg (from upstream kernel)

   Downside: currently requires patches to feed in missing runtime
   dependencies of the generated package. Also, it seems this is not
   designed to create full replacements of the standard debian kernel
   packages. Might be an uphill battle on the long run.

2. Provide debian/ folder in isar so that dpkg_runbuild works

   Question is here where to pick up the debian/ folder from. The
   original debian kernel package? The version that Frank once create as
   demo [1] (BTW, how was it created?)?

3. make-kpkg

   Still unclear to me what pros and cons are here.

Any comments / suggestions would be highly appreciated!

Thanks,
Jan

[1]
https://github.com/ilbers/linux/commit/b7ab449238b8e59943849a10c95d578aa01d70e7

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