Re: Custom kernel compile. Using "CONFIG_LOCALVERSION/EXTRAVERSION"

[James Westby <jw+debian@jameswestby.net>]

On (14/07/06 14:04), Chris Phillips wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am compiling my own kernel from kernel.org sources (+ patches) and creating a kernel-image package using:
> 
>    > make-kpkg clean
>    > fakeroot make-kpkg --initrd --revision=1.0 kernel_image kernel_headers
> 
> As I am playing around with a number of different kernel patches (bigphysarea, web100, custom tcp tweaking etc) I would like to be able to set the LOCALVERSION/EXTRAVERSION flag. However when I try and do this the kernel compiles OK and the .deb packages are created but when I try and install the packages things fail as (I guess) the installation process does not expect the extra tag on the kernel name.
> 
> How *should* I be doing this?
> 

Hi,

--append-to-version is my way.

James

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