override kernel version with make-kpkg

2013-12-09 Thread Michael Gulick
Hi, I'm looking for a way to override the default kernel package versions generated by make-kpkg. With 3.0+ kernels, the kernel sublevel (as in VERSION.PATCHLEVEL.SUBLEVEL), which is incremented when there are stable updates for a kernel release, is used to generate the package name. This produc

Re: override kernel version with make-kpkg

2013-12-09 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 8:39 PM, Michael Gulick wrote: > > I'm looking for a way to override the default kernel package versions > generated by make-kpkg. With 3.0+ kernels, the kernel sublevel (as in > VERSION.PATCHLEVEL.SUBLEVEL), which is incremented when there are stable > updates for a kernel

Re: override kernel version with make-kpkg

2013-12-09 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 09 Dec 2013 15:39:29 -0500 (EST), Michael Gulick wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm looking for a way to override the default kernel package versions > generated by make-kpkg. With 3.0+ kernels, the kernel sublevel (as in > VERSION.PATCHLEVEL.SUBLEVEL), which is incremented when there are stable > u

Re: override kernel version with make-kpkg

2013-12-10 Thread Michael Gulick
On Mon, 09 Dec 2013 23:13:32 -0500 (EST), Stephen Powell wrote: If you want to do this, you won't be able to use make-kpkg. You will need to do something like make a modified version of the Debian source package, linux, and build it with dpkg-buildpackage. But you want to use upstream sources.

Re: override kernel version with make-kpkg

2013-12-13 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 22:36:02 -0500 (EST), Michael Gulick wrote: > > I think my only option if I want automatic upgrades is to keep the > abiname constant. I'm assuming (and I'm not sure whether this > assumption is correct) that all the third party modules (primarily > nvidia drivers and vmwar