When you activate/deactivate packages in menuconfig, it may modify what
gets compiled into the kernel, to add/remove support for the various
subsystems needed by the packages you build.  This will cause the kernel
to be rebuilt with a different package number.

If you just rebuild the image without changing anything in menuconfig, I
think the kernel package will not be rebuilt.  Not sure though, just try
and see for yourself :)

Baptiste

On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 03:43:20PM +0530, Nishant Sharma wrote:
> Hello members,
> 
> Although, I am compiling and using custom OpenWRT images since 8 months
> now, but I am still confused with this particular behaviour. I am using
> it primarily on x86 Alix & APU devices.
> 
> Everytime I run a make and kernel gets recompiled, it changes the hex
> value appended to the kernel package name which makes a lot of packages
> or new modules compiled uninstallable on existing systems through opkg.
> 
> What is the best practice for doing these kind of things or is there any
> workaround?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Regards,
> Nishant
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