hello another user popped up with exacltly the same questions, need to start a wiki page somewhere on wiki.d.o, so got kicked in playing around.
On Mon, 26 Oct 2009, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 10:21:00PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 09:53:58PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > > > append a string to the version number and a debian revision. > > > > if you set KDEB_PKGVERSION you can set both, the debian revision > > is controled by .version. > > I actually mean the upstream version, not the actual version of the > resulting Debian package. When one uses make-kpkg --append=-foo > --revision=2.6.31.4.20091013.0, one gets, for example, a > linux-image-2.6.31.4-foo_2.6.31.4.20091013.0_i386.deb of a kernel > which actually returns 2.6.31.4-foo as answer to uname -r. This is > important if one wants to have different kernel flavours including > their own module directory. > > The equivalent to --revision is KDEB_PKGVERSION, but I haven't yet > found a way to emulate --append, since this probably needs > modification to the upstream version number ending up in > include/linux/utsrelease.h. Is there a variable for this as well, or > is the official way to do so parsing EXTRAVERSION from the top-level > Makefile and make all EXTRAVERSION=$EXTRAVERSION-foo? indeed KDEB_PKGVERSION sets the debian revision. well EXTRAVERSION is not recommend to play around. a better way to append a string to upstream version (in my game "-foo" was "-grml") is to set CONFIG_LOCALVERSION: ~/src/linux-2.6$ egrep LOCALVERSION .config CONFIG_LOCALVERSION="-grml" # CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO is not set current tree called with KDEB_PKGVERSION="grml.00~2.6.32-rc6.20091104" fakeroot make deb-pkg j=2 results in: dpkg-deb: building package `linux-image-2.6.32-rc6-grml' in `../linux-image-2.6.32-rc6-grml_grml.00~2.6.32-rc6.20091104_amd64.deb'. hope that helps, now soon this should end in a more readable doc.. kind regards maks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
