On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 the mental interface of s. keeling told: > Incoming from Frank Gevaerts: > > On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 04:45:38PM +0100, Simmel wrote: > > > > > > could you please help me out with this. I got a stable system running woody > > > and I'd like to build a new kernel.... I've done this a dozen times with > > > this page http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-kernel.en.html > > > > Why do you put --append_to_version there ? I would use: > > make-kpkg --revision rev.01 kernel_image > > Because if you ask five Debian kernel builders, you'll get five > different answers: > > --revision > > --append-to-version > > --version > $cat /etc/kernel-pkg.conf # This file is used by kernel-package (>2.0) to provide a means of the site [...] # The maintainer information. maintainer := Elimar Riesebieter email := riesebie@lxtec.de # Priority of this version (or urgency, as dchanges would call it) priority := Low # This is the debian revision number (defaulted to 1.0 in debian.rules) # You may leave it commented out if you use the wrapper script, or # if you create just one kernel-image package per linux kernel revision debian := 1lxtec0 and you only need to: $fakeroot make-kpkg kernel_image modules_image and your version will be set to 1lxtec0 in _my case_. In /usr/src/linux/ you can do a dch -i and provide some infos about your own kernel build in changelog, and the version will be count to 1lxtec1. It is just easy as it is ;-) Ciao Elimar -- "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." -Friedrich Nietzsche
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