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), the version in the name of the package and the debian package version are often different!
Regards, Panayiotis On 03/27/2012 02:05 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: > 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 version(b1) and Debian revision(b2), right? Assuming this, I'll >> ask my question in the form of a quiz: :-) > Hello, Panayiotis. I would start by reviewing "Step 9" in my kernel > building web page, http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm. > It doesn't use the same terminology as you do, but maybe it will help > explain things. The man page is out of date with respect to the > default value of --revision, if it is omitted. The default was changed > recently to conform with current Debian policy, but the man page is > out of date. I suggest that you use the latest version of kernel-package, > version 12.036+nmu2, plus the patch which I mention at the end of step 6. > I wouldn't omit --revision if I were you. I always specify it to match > the package version of the kernel source package. Read the web > page, especially step 9, to get my complete methodology for my kernel > version and kernel revision naming convention. You are, of course, > entitled to do it differently; but this method makes sense to me. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f71f8d3.4090...@gmail.com
