Re: Guide to building a custom kernel
On 14 Jun 2003 09:51:19 -0500
Doug MacFarlane <madmac@vauban.com> wrote:
> --revision just gives your kernel a more descriptive name.
>
> --append-to-version appends the append-to-version text to the kernel
> name AND to the modules directory name when dpkg installs the kernel.
This is not correct. --revision doesn't do anything at all to the kernel
name; it allows Debian packages to have different names even if the things
being packaged have the same name. (Many people unfortunately have the same
idea you had.)
The reason that kernels built with different --append-to-version values have
different modules directories is that --append-to-version actually becomes
part of the kernel name. Kernels with different names have different modules
directories.
The difference between --revision and --append-to-version the use of these
options is explained here and in the sections following:
http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html#APPEND-KERNEL-PKG
Kevin
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