-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 11:22:02PM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 12:22:23AM -0500, Brad wrote: > > | I've always used, for example, "--revision=2.2.12-hostname.1" because > > | dselect always wanted to replace my custom kernels with the stock ones > > | once that version went up on the mirrors if i used just "custom.1"... > > | > > | Anyway, 2.2.12-* is the proper version format ;) > > > > I haven't had this problem of dselect trying to replace kernels with a > > "custom.n.n" in the name. My kernels always come out with the version > > number before the custom part "kernel-image-2.2.10_custom.1.9_i386.deb". > > Maybe this reflects changes in dselect and make-kpkg? > > I've seen it happen once. I think it was with a kernel-image which used > epochs. The kernel-package documentation recommends using epochs to > avoid this: make-kpkg --revision=1:custom.1.0 kernel_image. Looking back, i think you're right. IIRC it was 2.2.5 that made me change, and the kernel-image-2.2.5 package on the mirrors does have an epoch. - -- finger for PGP public key. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBN8cvCL7M/9WKZLW5AQHprAQAoJ1bV1lBrDnJOktZIcU8TmeaUoHhOP+f +yQt3M8JJ47eoAi6RZ+MHUS2SVs/9JF9IW+3DUm8h7pBaOTu4zzi/kBZa1cYGsnl C0ScAxNK5arZb3nnGJmHLoZDq5MQXdJKnL2OZZPaFgGzV81NvwTQaZOdDASTEj6J hHPp2LzAkp4= =v/zH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----