On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 01:38:50AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 11:33:13AM -0700, Michael Meskes wrote: > > Could anyone please tell me why the kernel-image package's got an epoch? > > this breaks locally compiled (via kernel-package) kernel images. No matter > > what naming you have used there it is overwritten by the epoch. > > make-kpkg --revision=3:hostname.2.2.0 kernel_image Bzzzzzzzt. my understanding of the revision whatsit, is just for the debian revision. i.e., above == 2.2.17-3:hostname.2.2.0 which dpkg-deb borks on. (epoch is not a number (epoch == "2.2.17-3")) -- Michael Beattie (mickyb@es.co.nz) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- If at first you don't succeed, you must be using Windows. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian GNU/Linux.... Ooohh You are missing out!
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