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 vmware)

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

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

Re: override kernel version with make-kpkg

2013-12-09 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 8:39 PM, Michael Gulick mgul...@gmail.com 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

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 updates