building kernel-source-2.4.x fails

["Robin Elfrink" <robin@a1.nl>]

Hello all,


I have a system running testing and having problems building a
kernel-source-2.4.x-386 package, needed (depends) for building a
kernel-image-2.4.x-386 package. Apart from self-patched kernels I even tried
rebuilding the kernel-source-2.4.14-386 package from /debian/pool, but I
keep getting an error at:


tar cf - `echo * | sed -e 's/debian//g' -e 's/\.deb//g' ` \
| (cd debian/tmp-source/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.16; umask 000; tar xsf -)
tar: stamp-: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors


The sed script seems to be used to exlude the debian directory from being
tarred, but it also changes the 'stamp-debian' into 'stamp-', which then
cannot be found.

I tried changing the tar line into:

tar cf - `echo * | sed -e 's/ debian//g' -e 's/\.deb//g' ` \
| (cd debian/tmp-source/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.16; umask 000; tar xsf -)

(added a space before 'debian').


This gets rid of the error message, but still does not create a
kernel-source-2.4.x-386.deb file:


dpkg-genchanges: warning: package kernel-source-2.4.14 in control file but
not in files list


I even installed a clean system to make sure that I did not have old files
flying around. Am I missing something simple here?



Robin