Re: [PATCH] read EXTRAVERSION from file

[Frank Steiner <fsteiner-mail@bio.ifi.lmu.de>]

Sam Ravnborg wrote:

> This would fail for 2.6.8.1 for instance. Or at least the '1' that Linus 
> added would be part of the final EXTRAVERSION.
> 
> Ian Wienand <ianw@gelato.unsw.edu.au> posted a patch some time ago that
> introduces LOCALVERSION - it's in my queue but not applied since it
> needs some rework. And documentation also.
> That should be easy to extend to read the file localversion.

Nice idea, because we indeed ran into the problem with 2.6.8.1 that our
own extraversion we always set in the kernel rpms overwrite the .1. So
we are now extracting the EXTRAVERSION from the Makefile to add our
own stuff. All very ugly since the extraversion is contained e.g. in the
path of the kernel source file, and thus, setting an own extraversion
makes all the path stuff difficult.
A LOCALVERSION that was always uninitialized in the kernel.org packages
would be a nice thing, so that EXTRAVERSION could be left untouched.

cu,
Frank

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