Re: Dselect reinstalls kernel
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Nathan E Norman wrote:
: On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote:
:
: : Steven Feinstein wrote:
:
: [ snip dselect de-selected my custom kernel ]
:
: : Dselect may have interpreted your kernel as being earlier/older
: : than the one on the CD, and thus did an 'update' automatically.
: : In any case, you can use the 'hold' feature (press '=' instead of
: : '-' or '+') of dselect to prevent dpkg from 'upgrading' your
: : custom kernel.
:
: Actually, dselect had no way of knowing that you had upgraded your
: kernel, and therefore believed the stock kernel was still present.
:
: This is one of the reasons kernel-package was written. I highly
: recommend this package - it makes it nearly impossible to do something
: wrong!
:
: [ hint: read the README in /usr/doc/kernel-package after you install
: the package - it'll tell you what you need to know. ]
Only uninformed people follow-up to their own posts, but I seem to fall
into that category. I completely missed the fact that you were already
using kernel-package!
As someone else suggested, be sure to use the `--revision=foo' option to
make-kpkg, and that should solve the problem. It's never failed me
here.
I'm off to find some caffeine now - good day :)
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