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@@ -24,8 +24,16 @@ given a lower priority for security support. Options marked as BROKEN
or EXPERIMENTAL are of very low priority, and should not be enabled in
customized builds for a security-sensitive environment.
-Building specific binary packages
----------------------------------
+Building custom kernel binary packages
+--------------------------------------
+We recommend using the 'make deb-pkg' target provided by the upstream
+kernel source.
+
+Alternately, you may use the 'make-kpkg' command provided by the
+'kernel-package' package.
+
+Rebuilding official binary packages
+-----------------------------------
You can build specific kernel binary packages using the targets in
debian/rules.gen, which have names of the form:
binary-arch_<architecture>_<featureset>_<flavour>