Re: make-kpkg funny

["Ralf G. R. Bergs" <rabe@RWTH-Aachen.DE>]

On Tue, 23 Feb 1999 20:58:24 -0700 (MST), Bob Nielsen wrote:

>I just compiled 2.2.2 using make-kpkg (kernel-package 6.07) and using the
>command 'make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image' it created a file
>
>kernel-image-.._custom.1.0_i386.deb
>
>Where does make-kpkg get the kernel version?  Makefile shows:
>
>VERSION = 2
>PATCHLEVEL = 2
>SUBLEVEL = 2
>EXTRAVERSION =
>
>I'm a bit afraid to install, as I get a message that it wants to put the
>modules in /lib/modules/..
>
>Any ideas as to what went wrong here?

NOTHING went wrong.

It was YOU yourself who told make-kpkg to use the Debian(!) version no. 
"custom.1.0". The part after "kernel-image-" in the filename should 
contain the Linux kernel version no.

And what's wrong about /lib/modules? This is the place where the modules 
belong, after all. :-)


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