Re: apt-get wants toupgrade my kernel package to debian kernel package

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com> wrote:
>  I downloaded debian kernel source package (+ source for alsa modules
>and 3dfx module).
>
>  I used make-kpkg to build the kernel (and later on alsa and 3dfx
>modules). I specified jojda.1 as my kernel revision.
>
>  the resulting *.deb (kernel + modules) were succesfully installed, so
>now I have:
>
>ih kernel-image-2.2.17   jojda.1   1:2.2.17-1
>                         ^^^^^^^   ^^^^^^^^^^
>                         current   new

The 1: is an epoch, which means that 1:anything is greater than any
version number without an epoch, 2:anything is greater than 1:anything,
etc. Try 10:jojda.1, or some similarly high epoch, if you don't want it
to be replaced by Debian packages.

>  the same goes for alsa-modules-2.2.17:
>
>ih alsa-modules-2.2.17   0.5.9d-1+j1:0.5.9d-1
>
>   (there is only 'j' visible out of the jojda.1 string), how is
>0.5.9d-1 newer then 0.5.9d-1+jojda.1 ?

[cjw44@riva ~]$ if dpkg --compare-versions 0.5.9d-1+jojda.1 lt 1:0.5.9d-1; \   
> then echo hello; fi
hello

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]