Trouble installing alsa

[David <dlb@bn0.blue.net>]

I cannot seem to be able to install alsa using the make-kpkg method.

What I have done:

System is Woody:

1) I compiled a kernel (--revision custom.1) using the 2.4.18 kernel from the 
debian package.

2) I installed it

3) compiled the alsa-modules package using the command
             make-kpkg --revision custom.1 modules_image

Then, when executing the command 'dpkg -i alsa-modules-2.4.18'
I get the following output:

Unpacking alsa-modules-2.4.18 (from 
alsa-modules-2.4.18_0.9+0beta12+3+p0+custom.1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing alsa-modules-2.4.18_0.9+0beta12+3+p0+custom.1_i386.deb 
(--install):
 trying to overwrite `/lib/modules/2.4.18/modules.dep', which is also in 
package kernel-image-2.4.18
Errors were encountered while processing:
 alsa-modules-2.4.18_0.9+0beta12+3+p0+custom.1_i386.deb

The alsa install _does_ create and install modules into an 'alsa' directory 
in /lib/modules/2.4.18, but chokes.

One thing..  the alsa install shouldn't _OVERWRITE_ the current 
"modules.dep", should it?  The kernel file is quite larger than the alsa 
file, so if the alsa file overwrote the original one, it would trash many 
dependencies, wouldn't it?

If anyone can point out where I might have omitted a step or made a mistake, 
I would appreciate any help.. although I'm wondering if this might be some 
error in make-kpkg.

One thing that did occur to me..  the kernel and modules don't have to be 
installed at the same time, do they?  In the docs in /usr/share, it states 
that you need the kernel-source package, but a kernel compile is not 
required, so it would appear that that they do not have to be installed 
together.


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