Re: Dselect reinstalls kernel

1999-01-29 Thread Bob Nielsen
On a similar topic, I notice that if I do a --revision.1.0 and later a --revision.2.0, that the --revision.1.0 still shows up as being installed. Is there a way to remove it without causing problems with 2.0, since there is only one /lib/modules/2.x.x directory? I got arount this by cp'ing the mod

Re: Dselect reinstalls kernel

1999-01-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 03:43:55PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > As someone else suggested, be sure to use the `--revision=foo' option to > make-kpkg, and that should solve the problem. It's never failed me > here. But depending on what you make your --revision, dselect might still upgrade it.

Re: Dselect reinstalls kernel

1999-01-27 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Nathan E Norman wrote: : On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote: : : : Steven Feinstein wrote: : : [ snip dselect de-selected my custom kernel ] : : : Dselect may have interpreted your kernel as being earlier/older : : than the one on the CD, and thus did an 'up

Re: Dselect reinstalls kernel

1999-01-27 Thread Bob Nielsen
It looks like you didn't include the 'revision=' parameter when running make-kpkg. This should give the kernel you make a unique revision number which will be higher than the one on the CD and it will not be replaced. Bob On 27 Jan 1999, Steven Feinstein wrote: > Hi, > > I've rebuilt the kerne

Re: Dselect reinstalls kernel

1999-01-27 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote: : Steven Feinstein wrote: [ snip dselect de-selected my custom kernel ] : Dselect may have interpreted your kernel as being earlier/older : than the one on the CD, and thus did an 'update' automatically. : In any case, you can use the 'hold' featu

Re: Dselect reinstalls kernel

1999-01-27 Thread Ed Cogburn
Steven Feinstein wrote: > > Hi, > > I've rebuilt the kernel (using Debian v2). I created a deb using > make-kpkg --zImage kernel_image > and installed the new kernel using dpkg -i. > > I rebooted the machine and everything works fine. later, I decided to install > another package from the main