[plug] kernel package

[Grahame Bowland]

On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 12:41, Sol wrote:
> hello, hello, hello, said the policman with three heads,
> 
> I've just recompiled my kernel (2.4.16) because I don't think I had scsi 
> support set correctly. I've then gone to "make-kpkg -rev feb25 
> kernel-image" and come up with the message:"I note that you are using 
> the --revision flag with the value feb25. However, the 
> ./debian/changelog file exists, and has a different value config. I am 
> confused by this discrepancy, and am halting."
> 
> I've tried moving the changelog to the tmp directory (I didn't want to 
> rm it) so the program couldn't find it; replaced it with and empty file, 
> and tried it again with the old file, all to no avail. How can I get 
> over this annoying hurdle?

"rm -rf debian" will probably do the trick; you don't need to have any
debian/ subdirectories for kpkg to work. Just be careful that any initd
stuff you need works.

To be really careful read debian/rules debian/x.postinst, etc and check
what it does.

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