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>>>>> "Martin" == Martin =?iso-8859-1?Q?W=FCrtele?= <Martin> writes:
Martin> On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 03:31:49PM -0500, David Raeker-Jordan wrote:
Martin> (...)
>> What is EXTRAVERSION for and what problems might I cause? Is EXTRAVERSION
>> only to be used by the official maintainer, or can it safely be edited by
>> mere mortals?
Martin> AFAIK EXTRAVERSION is used for patched kernels, e.g. when I applied
raid
Martin> patches for kernel 2.2.xx they became 2.2.xx-RAID, same I had with
IDE
Martin> patches.
Whoever edits the top-level Makefile before last compilation decides
what EXTRAVERSION is.
Yes, patches often do set EXTRAVERSION, but that's of no consequences;
I can't think of a reason a patched kernel should check the
EXTRAVERSION to see whether it's "correctly set" (not to mention that
it's probably not that easy to get at the version string from any
random place in the kernel code).
At least that's what I go by... all my custom kernels do wear an
EXTRAVERSION.
And this has the added benefit that multiple different kernels (built
for different machines) can reside in the same apt-able repository
without conflict...
HTH,
Bye, J
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