On Wed, May 07 2014, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 01:28:20PM -0700, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I can't replicate this (see below for my attempt). OK. We need >> to know why there is a dirty in there. The value we see for target >> debian/stamp/conf/full-changelog 's/=V/3.15.0-rc4-dirty/g' comesd from >> KERNELRELEASE. That is defined from: >> a) cat include/config/kernel.release or
> OK, so the last regeneration of kernel.release during make prepare saw
> the tree as dirty. But
>
> It is really interesting that everything seems to be OK when I do
> $ make kpkg_version=13.003 -f /usr/share/kernel-package/ruleset/minimal.mk
> debian INITRD=YES
>
> This means that either make-kpkg does something which dirties the tree
> before make minimal.mk or fakeroot does something nasty.
>
> And it seems the be the second one:
> is correct. So it seems that fakeroot somehow manages to confuse
> kernel.release file generation.
>
> And indeed using --rootcmd fakeroot rather than fakeroot for the whole
> make-kpkg fixes the issue. I was using fakeroot make-kpkg in my scripts
> since ages and it seemed to work but it really makes a lot of sense to
> use --rootcmd instead so I've fixed my scripts.
I will update the kernel-package documentation and problems
file -- and bring this to the attention of fakeroot maintainer.
manoj
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