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I'm running EndeavourOS Arch, and I'm trying to build the Linux Kernel to deploy within a debian / Ubuntu system. The files are usually in .deb format, however I noticed that the bindeb-pkg package isn't available in Arch.

I don't want to set up my development environment in the Ubuntu system as it gets re-imaged often, and would prefer not to use a virtual machine within my Arch as I usually SSH into it from whatever device I have at the moment.

I am not very familiar with containers like docker and so, but I guess I'll take a look at trying to run some kind of docker container... but would prefer to just use straight up system without any containers... (Yes I do understand it helps a lot to set up containers).

If anyone knows how to do something like

"make -j24 bindeb-pkg"

And have the .deb packages output in .tar.xz or similar. Or even output them as:

linux-firmware-image-VERSIONS.deb

linux-headers-VERSIONS.deb

linux-image-VERSIONS.deb

linux-libc-dev_VERSIONS.deb

If anyone know how to do this within Arch that'd be awesome. Thank you

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You need to install Debian packaging tools. Since these are not available in the Arch Linux repositories by default, you can use yay to install them from the AUR.

yay -S dpkg debhelper devscripts

Now after configuring and building the kernel.

Run:

make-kpkg --rootcmd fakeroot --initrd --append-to-version=-custom kernel_image kernel_headers

The .deb packages should be seen in the current kernel source root directory.

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