Package: kernel-package Version: 12.014 Severity: minor (Please forgive me if I say anything stupid -- I'm just a dumb user who's not quite familiar with the inner workings of kernel building or make-kpkg.)
The make-kpkg(1) manpage comes with a rather long disclaimer following the --append-to-version option, about version.h and the need to run make clean. Is this section still valid? I ask because its description of what happens doesn't match my own experience; making clean does not adjust include/linux/version.h, but deletes it entirely. In fact, whatever I append never ends up there, but in include/linux/utsrelease.h instead. It kinda sucks having to make clean when packaging two kernels that differ only by a patch or a commit. In fact, last time I bisected a bug, I foolishly ignored these instructions, and everything seemed to work out fine. Was I asking for trouble? -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26.8 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages kernel-package depends on: ii binutils 2.19.1-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii build-essential 11.4 Informational list of build-essent ii debianutils 3.1.3 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii file 5.03-1 Determines file type using "magic" ii gettext 0.17-6 GNU Internationalization utilities ii make 3.81-6 An utility for Directing compilati ii module-init-tools 3.9-2 tools for managing Linux kernel mo ii po-debconf 1.0.16 tool for managing templates file t ii util-linux 2.15.1~rc1-1 Miscellaneous system utilities kernel-package recommends no packages. Versions of packages kernel-package suggests: ii bzip2 1.0.5-3 high-quality block-sorting file co pn docbook-utils <none> (no description available) ii e2fsprogs 1.41.6-1 ext2/ext3/ext4 file system utiliti ii initramfs-tools [linux-in 0.93.3 tools for generating an initramfs pn libdb3-dev <none> (no description available) ii libncurses5-dev [libncurs 5.7+20090523-1 developer's libraries and docs for pn linux-source | kernel-sou <none> (no description available) pn xmlto <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
