Hi,
>>"Ralph" == Ralph Winslow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ralph> May I suggest that make-kpkg print a message when it sees that
Ralph> a kernel image exists in / and that it will therefore not
Ralph> complete the install?
Ok, I've put in a warning message now.
Ralph> I don't recall putting vmlinuz in root on Jan 20,
Ralph> I've only used "make install" or make-kpkg in the past IIRC,
Ralph> but I could well be wrong about this and could easily imagine
Ralph> doing a "cp /usr/src/linux/vmlinuz /vmlinuz" if I didn't get
Ralph> the results I expected from one of those processes.
Therein lies the problem. make install is not compatible with
creating a kernel-image .deb package and installling that; anymore
than compiling any program from source and running make install is
compatible with installing the debian package.
By running make install, either in the kernl source or in,
say, sendmail sources, you are bypassing the debian package
management system and rolling your own. Things may well break after
that.
So far, the script assumed that if you were rolling your own
you obviously knew better than it did (on the principle that humans
know best). In the future, it shall issue a diffident warning.
manoj
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