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Re: naming kernel images (potato)



On Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 12:37:11PM -0700, Pann McCuaig wrote:
> Whenever I've built a kernel I've used the following syntax:
> 
> # make-kpkg --rev tux.1.0 kernel_image
> 
> where "tux" identifies the machine to me and "1.0" identifies which of
> my revisions of the kernel I'm dealing with.
> 
> I install the resulting kernel-image-...-.deb with dpkg -i.
> 
> I recently upgraded a box to potato, grabbed the source for
> kernel-2.2.15, and built and installed a kernel. No worries.
> 
> But,
> 
> # apt-get update ; apt-get -s upgrade
> 
> offered to upgrade kernel-image-2.2.15 for me.  :-(
> 
> I definitely don't want that to happen. It's never happened before under
> slink, hamm, bo, or rex that I recall.
> 
> Deep in the vague recesses of my memory I seem to recall an issue
> similar to this being discussed, with a suggestion for naming kernel
> images to avoid the problem.

try...

# make-kpkg --rev 3:tux.1.0 kernel-image

The 3 is an epoch (not sure that kernel-package will let you use them, but
give it a try). The epoch will override other versions of a lower epoch
even if the rest of the version is higher.

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