On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 09:17:51AM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote: > On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 11:45:16AM -0500, Rajesh Radhakrishnan wrote: > > > > dpkg-deb - error: (upstream) version (`linux') doesn't contain any digits > > dpkg-deb: 1 errors in control file > > make: *** [kernel-image-deb] Error 2 > > Don't know if this is the problem, but when you unpacked the kernel, did > you rename the top directory from linux to linux-2.2.14? It shouldn't > matter (as I think the version number is found elsewhere).
The version is found in the top-level Makefile, in these lines: VERSION = 2 PATCHLEVEL = 2 SUBLEVEL = 14 EXTRAVERSION = You can look in /usr/share/kernel-package/rules to find the exact spot. > Also, did you follow the `make menuconfig ; make-kpkg clean ; > make-kpkg --revision=2:custom.1.0 kernel_image' order. That make-kpkg > clean is important. i've always done 'make-kpkg clean', patch, 'make menuconfig', 'make-kpkg --rev blah kernel-image', 'make-kpkg --rev blah modules-image', and never had any troubles that didn't rate a bug report. -- finger for GPG public key. 8 Jan 2000 - Old email addresses removed from key, new added
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