Re: 2.6.Stable and EXTRAVERSION

[Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 09:25:54AM +0100, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 19:53, Justin M. Forbes wrote:
> > With the new stable series kernels, the .x versioning is being added to
> > EXTRAVERSION.  This has traditionally been a space for local modification.
> > I know several distributions are using EXTRAVERSION for build numbers,
> > platform and assorted other information to differentiate their kernel
> > releases.
> 
> It's no issue for us. We're using this patch to add in the RPM release
> number:
> 
> Index: linux-2.6.10/Makefile
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.10.orig/Makefile
> +++ linux-2.6.10/Makefile
> @@ -158,8 +158,11 @@ endif
>  LOCALVERSION = $(subst $(space),, \
>  	       $(shell cat /dev/null $(localversion-files:%~=)) \
>  	       $(patsubst "%",%,$(CONFIG_LOCALVERSION)))
> +ifneq ($(wildcard $(srctree)/rpm-release),)
> +RPM_RELEASE := -$(shell cat $(srctree)/rpm-release)
> +endif
>  
> -KERNELRELEASE=$(VERSION).$(PATCHLEVEL).$(SUBLEVEL)$(EXTRAVERSION)$(LOCALVERSION)
> +KERNELRELEASE=$(VERSION).$(PATCHLEVEL).$(SUBLEVEL)$(EXTRAVERSION)$(RPM_RELEASE)$(LOCALVERSION)
>  
>  # SUBARCH tells the usermode build what the underlying arch is.  That is set
>  # first, and if a usermode build is happening, the "ARCH=um" on the command

Naming your rpm-release file: localversion00-rpm would do the same
without the need to patch the kernel.

	Sam