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 that gives your package an epoch of 3 which overrides the debian epoch. though perhaps its time to start using 5 for user kernel packages.. is it possible to set a default epoch in /etc/kernel-pkg.conf? (shamefully being lazy and not checking the FM myself) perhaps kernel-package should ship with a default config that creates a high epoch so user packages always override debian kernels. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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