Hi Kevin Sound good. I didn't know that piece about update-grub. It reads the package database then ? I'll do rtfm, also about configuring kernel-kpkg, and try something your way :-)
micha. [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb zu Re: make-kpkg, was: Getting PCMCIA to work?: > I use make-kpkg to build several versions of a kernel, and this for me is > much simpler: edit Makefile and define Extraversion as the date, so today > Extraversion=.0209. > > If I made more than one version today I could extend it with .020901 or > something. > > This has several desirable consequences: > 1. I don't need to screw around with symlinks. Each kernel has a unique > name, and the boot loader knows it by that name. In the boot menu kernels > are shown in order from newest to oldest. 2. Each kernel has its own > /lib/modules tree and I don't need to worry about overwriting an old one > before I'm ready -- it's installed or removed along with its kernel. 3. I > use grub, so I have configured kernel-package to run update-grub whenever > I install or remove a kernel package.
