Re: [SLUG] Custom kernels on debian

[Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Hardy <pjha297@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Now, when I run "apt-get dist-upgrade", it tries to replace my custom kernel
> with the one found in dists/proposed-updates.  My kernel is the same version
> as the debian one, but it's been patched with the new NIC drivers.  How can
> I stop my system trying to overwrite it with the debian kernel?

Put your own on hold (all locally compiled versions of packages in Debian
should be put on hold):

echo "kernel-image-2.2.17 hold" | dpkg --set-selections

or use the --flavour flag for make-kpkg.
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