In Jack's email, 13-10-2000: > Hi, > > I always compile my own customized kernel. However, it brings one > thing annoying when using apt-get dist-upgrade. As you can see as > following it tries to install debian provided kernel instead. > > Can I shut it off? > > thanks, [ snip of apt/dpkg replacing custom kernel.. ]
Jack: the problem you're having is that the package on the debian end is coming up as a higher version number than you're make-kpkg compiled one. I had this problem for a while, and I fixed it by using epochs in my local versions.. i.e. make-kpkg --version 4:custom.4 kernel_image .. This seemed to fix all my problems, and hopefully they won't ever get an epoch of 4 on the archive versions :P Michael Janssen CNS Lab Admin UNI
