On Saturday 13 June 2009 16:27:48 Harry Putnam wrote:
> Setting a version to local kernel builds has been discussed here so
> sorry to bang on it some more.
>
> I found information here from a previous thread and kept one of the
> answers but finding now that I don't really understand it.
>
> Or am doing the proceedure wrong.
>
> It was Neil B's post:
>
> From: Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: Append string on Kernel builds
> Newsgroups: gmane.linux.gentoo.user
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:11:22 +0000
> Message-ID: <20090120141122.46b83...@krikkit>
>
> On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:43:56 -0600, rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
> > I like to use that and put `-$MYHOST' as string. I wondered if
> > there is any way to set a numericly incrementing string. Maybe
> > some trick syntax that can go in that spot?
>
> cd /usr/src/linux
> echo "-${MYHOST}-" >localversion1
> ln -s .version localversion2
>
> The build system adds the contents of any localversion* files it
> finds, and it also increments .version.
>
>
> But when I try this I get only the $MYHOST part (in this case
> host=reader) and not the increment.
>
> So for linux-2.6.30-gentoo-r1
>
> and in /usr/src/linux
> cat localverion1:
> _reader_
>
> Cat .version:
> 1
> And the symlink
> ls -l localversion2
> lrwxrwxrwx [...] Jun 12 18:01 localversion2 -> .version
> I get this naming after a build:
>
> vimlinuz-2.6.30-gentoo-r1_reader_
>
> No version gets appended.
>
> I understood it should have also append the numeric version and
> increment it each time I build that kernel.
>
> Anyone see where I'm dorking this up?
I only see two thing:
Did you set both
() Local version - append to kernel release
[ ] Automatically append version information to the version string
In "General setup"?
Second, you appear to have used a file called "localverion1" instead of
"localversion1"
Is that a real mistake, or just a typo in your mail?
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
