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Re: Compiling the Kernel.



On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 10:21:40PM +0200, Kai Weber wrote:
> At 14:21 19.06.00, you wrote:
> 
> >Better yet:
> >
> >apt-get update; apt-get install kernel-package
> >make config (or menuconfig or xconfig)
> >make-kpkg clean
> >make-kpkg --revision=local.<kernel-version> kernel_image
> >dpkg -i ../kernel-image-<kernel-version>_local.<kernel-version>_i386.deb
> 
> 
> I did it. I made a new kernel with settings for my system. But now, 
> whenever I want to install a new package it wants to update the 
> kernel-image as well. I thought it will recognize the installed as a newer 
> version? 

Apparently a recent kernel-image package used an epoch.  To combat
this you need use an epoch in your version also.  I believe you would
do that like this:

  make-kpkg --revision=5:local.<kernel-version> kernel_image

HTH,

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