I was attempting to compile my own kernel as a debian package, following these directions:
https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/i386/ch08s06.html.en When I got to the point where it has you run make-kpkg itself, where it suggests the following command: # fakeroot make-kpkg --initrd --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image And states that you can put whatever you want in place of "custom" and that the "1.0" bit marks revisions, etc, I attempted to follow its example and was met with this: dmorrison@shodan:~/Downloads/linux-4.0.1$ fakeroot make-kpkg --initrd --revision=shodan.1.0 kernel_image Error: The revision string may only contain alphanumerics and the characters ~ + . If epochs are used, the colon : is also allowed The current value is: shodan.1.0 Aborting. Which is rather confusing, since it basically says "your string can only contain such and such characters, it contains... exactly those characters we said it could contain. Aborting" I tried various versions of the revision string, from shodan.1, shodan1, shodan1.0, etc, until I finally hit upon a winning combination: 1.0shodan It seems it will only accept a revision that starts with a number. This contradicts the documentation and is not mentioned anywhere in the error message. If I'm doing something else wrong sobeit but this seems a tad broken to me. Potentially relevant information: uname -a: Linux shodan 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt9-3~deb8u1 (2015-04-24) x86_64 GNU/Linux Debian version: jessie Install date: 5/1/2015 from stable netinst image. kernel-package version: 13.014+nmu1 kernel attempting to compile: 4.0.1 If there's any other information you consider relevant please let me know. Thanks.
