\begin{James Wilkinson}
whenever I do an apt update, my new kernel image gets dusted by the
version in the distro.
add an epoch. ie: make-kpkg --revision 1:willow.1
or make your version start with a letter, so its always greater than
the official versions (which start with a number)
some things (pcmcia packages) are too strict in their recommended
versions and so you have to force dselect to ignore them (dselect
takes recommendations a little too seriously)
re: jeff's query
applying patches automatically is really nice. i have the
kernel-crypto patches applied automatically to every kernel i build,
without me having to lift a finger. also, installing the
kernel-image.deb is even easier than typing "make install make
modules_install lilo". add automatically rebuilding "3rd party"
kernel modules (i use pcmcia and alsa), and its way easier than doing
it manually.
it keeps the System.map file in sync, the /vmlinuz.old symlink
accurate and preserves your kernel config in /boot/config-XX - things
i would keep forgetting to do if i had to do them by hand.
use make-kpkg, its worth it.
the "only asking new config questions" thing is just a normal kernel
"make oldconfig". a good trick is to get a new kernel source tree,
"cp /boot/config-current_kernel new_kernel_src/.config", then run
make-kpkg. you automatically inherit all your custom settings, and get
asked about new ones.
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