Re: [ITP/mostly packaged] hftpd

[Michael Stone <mstone@itri.loyola.edu>]

On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 01:09:40AM -0500, Rob Browning wrote:
> ron@microtronics.com.au (Ron) writes:
> > I tend to use make-kpkg if I'm building a kernel to use on a different
> > machine than the one I'm building it on, but otherwise I usually dont.
> > Kernel packages are handy if you wish to intstall the same kernel image
> > on multiple machines, but since all my machines have different hardware
> > in them I usually do a custom build for each.  For machines I keep
> > kernel source on, I'm usually happy to build a zImage without the
> > overhead of packaging it and its modules too..
> 
> Except then reverting to the old kernel is a bigger PITA than it is if
> you just happen have the old .deb lying around, especially if it's
> multiple compiles of the same kernel version.

Not if you call it /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.7-foo and put the appropriate
entries in lilo.conf...

Mike Stone