Re: apt-get problem
On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 08:53:48PM -0700, Sean wrote:
> hi folks,
>
> i am a new debian user. fresh install potato. i
> built my own kernel_image. after that, everytime when
> i fire apt-get update/upgrade, it prompt me for
> upgrading kernel_image ...
>
> how can i keep an "old" package (in this case is the
> kernel_image) from not upgrading?
There are two ways to do this.
1. Go into dselect, position the cursor on the kernel-image-2.2.17
line and type "=". This puts that package on hold so neither apt-get
nor dselect will try to upgrade it.
2. Recompile using an epoch:
make-kpkg --revision=3:custom.1.0 kernel_image
The Debian kernel-image-2.2.17 package was created with an epoch of 1,
which is why this is happening. /usr/doc/kernel-package/README.gz has
a discussion of this.
Actually there is a third way using 'dpkg --set-selections' but that
should probably be avoided by a new user
--
Bob Nielsen, N7XY nielsen@oz.net
Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen
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