On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 16:19 -0400, Filipus Klutiero wrote: > Package: debian-kernel-handbook > Version: 1.0.10 > Severity: normal > > There is a wrong command in section 4.5 Building a custom kernel from > Debian kernel source: > > > $ make KDEB_PKGVERSION=custom.1.0 deb-pkg > > This command fails - after a real long time - with: > > dpkg-deb: error: parsing file > > '/home/chealer/sources/linux-source-2.6.39/debian/hdrtmp/DEBIAN/control' > > near line 3 package 'linux-headers-2.6.39': > > erreur dans la chaîne Version « custom.1.0 »: version number does not > > start with digit > > make[1]: *** [deb-pkg] Erreur 2 > > make: *** [deb-pkg] Erreur 2 > > The French says 'error in Version string "custom.1.0"'. > Apparently dpkg-deb no longer accepts Version strings that start with > something other than a digit. > > There is however an easy workaround, changing the version string, for > example to "1.0": > > $ make KDEB_PKGVERSION=1.0 deb-pkg
I think this example was written in the belief that $KDEB_PKGVERSION would define the Debian revision, whereas it really defines the whole package version. So the example should be something like '2.6.39-custom.1.0'. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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