also sprach Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> [2003.09.01.0853 +0200]: > Abbreviated example: > > make-pkg --append-to-version -2-686-smp kernel_modules > > Produces: > > /usr/share/man/man4/bcm5700-2-4-21-2-686-smp.4.gz Not by default. I could make that happen manually though, which is what I will do, in addition to /etc/alternatives. > So this conflict seems to be only possible if the kernel is > constructed raw with no version over and above the upstream kernel > version. That does not seem very common nor useful. I would be > happy to continue into the discussion of why kernels need to be > named uniquely which is different from most packages. No need, I am with you. > I use the broadcom module and I have never run into this case > since I am not sure it is useful (for me anyway) to build a kernel > without some type of identifier for the type of kernel and the > version of the configuration of that kernel. I do too, but I get the problem. As I said, the manpage is called bcm5700.4.gz. It does not include the version info yet. > I have to ask if this is really enough of a problem to justify any > handling at all, special or otherwise? I cannot upgrade my kernels to a newer version without --force-overwrite. So yes. -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org> : :' : proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system Invalid/expired PGP subkeys? Use subkeys.pgp.net as keyserver!
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