On 05-Jan-2000 Brian Servis wrote: > Just do it! Just use make-kpkg with a revision name that will be > greater than 2.2.14-1(this will be the version number of the > kernel-image once it is released) and you will be fine. > > make-kpkg --revision=pollywog.1 kernel_image
I did it this way for my laptop last time I reinstalled Linux and it does keep my custom kernel from being "upgraded" by a standard Debian kernel image :) > > Basically anything with a letter will be fine, something like > pollywog.1. Use dpkg to check it if you are not sure. > >#dpkg --compare-versions 2.2.14-1 ge pollywog.1 ; echo $? > 1 >#dpkg --compare-versions 2.2.14-1 lt pollywog.1 ; echo $? > 0 I did not know about dpkg --compare-versions. I am guessing the resulting "1" and "0" are exit codes, the "0" indicating no error. thanks -- Andrew
