Thanks to the two posters. It was the revision. I tried it once but make-kpkg kept failing. I kept forgetting to use --revision instead of -revision. No problems now.
Thanks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > : On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote: > : > : : Steven Feinstein wrote: > : > : [ snip dselect de-selected my custom kernel ] > : > : : Dselect may have interpreted your kernel as being earlier/older > : : than the one on the CD, and thus did an 'update' automatically. > : : In any case, you can use the 'hold' feature (press '=' instead of > : : '-' or '+') of dselect to prevent dpkg from 'upgrading' your > : : custom kernel. > : > : Actually, dselect had no way of knowing that you had upgraded your > : kernel, and therefore believed the stock kernel was still present. > : > : This is one of the reasons kernel-package was written. I highly > : recommend this package - it makes it nearly impossible to do something > : wrong! > : > : [ hint: read the README in /usr/doc/kernel-package after you install > : the package - it'll tell you what you need to know. ] > > Only uninformed people follow-up to their own posts, but I seem to fall > into that category. I completely missed the fact that you were already > using kernel-package! > > As someone else suggested, be sure to use the `--revision=foo' option to > make-kpkg, and that should solve the problem. It's never failed me > here. > > I'm off to find some caffeine now - good day :) > > -- > Nathan Norman > MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net > finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9) > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < ____________________________________________________________________ More than just email--Get your FREE Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/netcenter/mail
