I've been compiling kernals for my AMD64 X2 box with all SATA drives and nvidia graphics since I built it and while on the whole it's been fairly straight forward,there is one issue that continues to annoy and confuse me, the matter of determening the name of the Kernel. the in append-to-version" clause is repeated in the (deb)file
and the some of the info in frome the linux-header file
is missing.

In my /usr/src dircetory I have
linux-source-2.6.16/
linux-headers-2.6.16-2/
linux-headers-2.6.16-2-amd64-k8-smp/
linux-> linux-source-2.6.16/
my make-kpkg is :
make-kpkg \
--append-to-version=-2.sata-enabled.20060828 \
kernel_image -initrd \
modules_image

and the result is

linux-image-2.6.16-2.sata-enabled.20060828_2.6.16-2.sata-enabled.20060828-10.00.Custom_amd64.deb
and what I would really expect (and like) would be something like:
linux-image-2.6.16-2.sata-enabled.20060828-amd64-k8-smp.deb

I've poured over the man make-kpkg file and the kernel sections of the Debian ref. but I haven't found how the linux-header files are incorperated into the source info
can any one help explain what is happening with the repeats?

Thanks

Jeff

Jeff,

When you do a make menuconfig, check General Setup -> [ ]Automatically append version information to the version string. On the 2.6x kernels I've compiled under from source it's always enabled by default, which could explain why you're seeing the version number appended twice.

No, I just checked and "Automatically append" is unchecked
I trimmed down and tried to simplify my config file a couple of cycles back. thanks for the suggestion though.

Jeff