On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 01:27:01PM +0100, Jürgen A. Erhard wrote:
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> 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
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> "Martin" == Martin =?iso-8859-1?Q?W=FCrtele?= 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
>> on
On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 03:31:49PM -0500, David Raeker-Jordan wrote:
(...)
> 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?
AFAIK EXTRAVERSION is used for patched kernels, e.g.
I have read the kernel-package Readme and it says (I think) to name custom
kernels like this:
make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image
I can do that, but then when I install the kernel and run "uname -a" I get a
name like 2.2.18. How can I identify the kernel as a custom kernel version
once i
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