On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 10:21:40PM +0200, Kai Weber wrote: > At 14:21 19.06.00, you wrote: > > >Better yet: > > > >apt-get update; apt-get install kernel-package > >make config (or menuconfig or xconfig) > >make-kpkg clean > >make-kpkg --revision=local.<kernel-version> kernel_image > >dpkg -i ../kernel-image-<kernel-version>_local.<kernel-version>_i386.deb > > > I did it. I made a new kernel with settings for my system. But now, > whenever I want to install a new package it wants to update the > kernel-image as well. I thought it will recognize the installed as a newer > version?
Apparently a recent kernel-image package used an epoch. To combat this you need use an epoch in your version also. I believe you would do that like this: make-kpkg --revision=5:local.<kernel-version> kernel_image HTH, -- Nathan Norman "Eschew Obfuscation" Network Engineer GPG Key ID 1024D/51F98BB7 http://home.midco.net/~nnorman/ Key fingerprint = C5F4 A147 416C E0BF AB73 8BEF F0C8 255C 51F9 8BB7
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