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Re: make-kpkg and 2.2.12



On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 11:22:02PM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 12:22:23AM -0500, Brad wrote:
> | I've always used, for example, "--revision=2.2.12-hostname.1" because
> | dselect always wanted to replace my custom kernels with the stock ones
> | once that version went up on the mirrors if i used just "custom.1"...
> | 
> | Anyway, 2.2.12-* is the proper version format ;)
> 
>   I haven't had this problem of dselect trying to replace kernels with a
> "custom.n.n" in the name.  My kernels always come out with the version
> number before the custom part "kernel-image-2.2.10_custom.1.9_i386.deb".
> Maybe this reflects changes in dselect and make-kpkg? 

I've seen it happen once.  I think it was with a kernel-image which used
epochs.  The kernel-package documentation recommends using epochs to
avoid this:  make-kpkg --revision=1:custom.1.0 kernel_image. 

Bob

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