Re: kernel question

[Pollywog <pollywog@shadypond.com>]

On 05-Jan-2000 Brian Servis wrote:
> Just do it!  Just use make-kpkg with a revision name that will be
> greater than 2.2.14-1(this will be the version number of the
> kernel-image once it is released) and you will be fine. 
> 
> make-kpkg --revision=pollywog.1 kernel_image

I did it this way for my laptop last time I reinstalled Linux and it does keep
my custom kernel from being "upgraded" by a standard Debian kernel image :)

> 
> Basically anything with a letter will be fine, something like
> pollywog.1.  Use dpkg to check it if you are not sure.
> 
>#dpkg --compare-versions 2.2.14-1 ge pollywog.1 ; echo $? 
> 1
>#dpkg --compare-versions 2.2.14-1 lt pollywog.1 ; echo $? 
> 0

I did not know about dpkg --compare-versions.  I am guessing the resulting "1"
and "0" are exit codes, the "0" indicating no error.

thanks

--
Andrew