Re: make-kpkg --append-to-version
On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 03:07:26PM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote:
> I am trying to build a kernel for athlon on my pentium machine. It must
> be 2.4.3 (as I am using at the moment) because I have xfs running on /,
> /home, and /var. I want to install both kernels for being able to switch
> all my hardware back to the pentium machine if something doesn't work. I
> tried to compile the athlon kernel with "--append-to-version athlon" and
> I get the eroor message
>
> "dpkg-gencontrol: error: package kernel-image-2.4.3-xfsathlon not in
> control info
> make: *** [kernel-image-deb] Error 29"
You did not run "make-kpkg clean" since you last ran "make-kpkg" to build
a different kernel-image deb, would be my guess before thinking about it
too deeply, because it's the most common problem with kernel-package.
The complaint from dpkg-gencontrol seems to point to this as well.
> Running without --append-to-version gives me a kernel-image.deb which is
> named exactly as the installed kernel. This is not good, because
> installing it may overwrite the existing kernel and stealing me the
> ability to fix anything in case of misconfiguration.
> Any idea how to produce a kernel with a different name?
This is the right way, just make-kpkg clean, so it updates the control
info for the deb with the info for your new build.
Cheers,
Joost
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