On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 08:53:48PM -0700, Sean wrote: > hi folks, > > i am a new debian user. fresh install potato. i > built my own kernel_image. after that, everytime when > i fire apt-get update/upgrade, it prompt me for > upgrading kernel_image ... > > how can i keep an "old" package (in this case is the > kernel_image) from not upgrading?
There are two ways to do this. 1. Go into dselect, position the cursor on the kernel-image-2.2.17 line and type "=". This puts that package on hold so neither apt-get nor dselect will try to upgrade it. 2. Recompile using an epoch: make-kpkg --revision=3:custom.1.0 kernel_image The Debian kernel-image-2.2.17 package was created with an epoch of 1, which is why this is happening. /usr/doc/kernel-package/README.gz has a discussion of this. Actually there is a third way using 'dpkg --set-selections' but that should probably be avoided by a new user -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen
