Re: kernel-package Help
On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 02:59:17PM +0900, Horms wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 11:43:10PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> > On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 13:03:56 +0900, Horms <horms@debian.org> said:
> >
> > > This is to get around the problem where these packages are rejected
> > > as their version, 2.4.26-6 is less than the version currently in
> > > debian provided by kernel-image-1-i386-2.4.27, that is version
> > > 2.4.27-X. This will allow 2.4.26-6 to be uploaded.
> >
> > I guess I haven't been following along too closely. The idea
> > behind kernel image naming used to be that version 2.4.26 was a
> > different package from version 2.4.27, and thus was independent;
> > uploading 2.4.27 would in no way impact 2.4.26 uploads. Has this
> > been somehow changed?
> >
> > > However, when I try to built packages thus, the build fails with the
> > > error.
> >
> > > dpkg-gencontrol: error: package kernel-image-2.4-386 not in control
> >
> > Right. The kernel image name was related to the kernel
> > version, so that each kernel image package would own the
> > corresponding /lib/modules/$version dir. The kernel-image name is
> > really kernel-image-$version$extraversion, and it owns
> > /lib/modules/$version$extraversion.
> >
> > > Does anyone have any suggestions on how to resolve either this error
> > > or the upload problem?
> >
> > Epochs have been created to work around versioning snafus.
>
> Hi Manoj,
>
> thanks for your quick response. However, I don't think that using
> an epoch will reslove the problem.
Hi Manoj,
I discussed this a problem with Joshua Kwan and Sven Luther on
#debian-kernel, and on closer examination the problem I was seeing
appears to have been caused by the post-install script and not
kpkg.
--
Horms
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