Re: Question about make-kpkg and versions

2012-03-29 Thread Panayiotis
On 3/28/12, Stephen Powell wrote: > (I.e. is this a bug or a feature?) Haha, indeed! It seems M$ is haunting us, haha... Regards, Panayiotis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Question about make-kpkg and versions

2012-03-27 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:28:51 -0400 (EDT), Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > > Thanks! This seems to cover me. > > Not much of a terminology, haha, I just had to put the numbers in there > because there are three version substrings in the .deb file of a kernel > package! To the confusion adds the fac

Re: Question about make-kpkg and versions

2012-03-27 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
Thanks! This seems to cover me. Not much of a terminology, haha, I just had to put the numbers in there because there are three version substrings in the .deb file of a kernel package! To the confusion adds the fact that the version of the source package (now starts with 2.6 even for 3.0+ kernels)

Re: Question about make-kpkg and versions

2012-03-27 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 06:49:58 -0400 (EDT), Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > > I am trying to understand how make-kpkg chooses the versions for the > packages it creates. Each package has a name(a), which contains a > version part(a1), as well as a version(b), which is further split in > upstream vers

Question about make-kpkg and versions

2012-03-27 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
Hi, I am trying to understand how make-kpkg chooses the versions for the packages it creates. Each package has a name(a), which contains a version part(a1), as well as a version(b), which is further split in upstream version(b1) and Debian revision(b2), right? Assuming this, I'll ask my question i

Question about make-kpkg

2003-09-15 Thread David Goodenough
I know that what I want to do is not really "the Debian Way", but I do not have an option, so I want to make the best of a bad deal. I am trying to install Debian onto a Compulab 586BASE which has some Flash memory built into it. This flash memory is supported by a compulab supplied driver, part