On Sun, 01 Feb 2009 12:31:27 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > I'm a little confused here... what exactly is in .version? Say if I > wanted to identify the kernel as belonging to a specific machine. > HOST is vm23. Now if I wanted to have an incrementing version string > that included that host name what would I need in .version and how > does the incrementing work? > > Do you mean 1 is added to string each time you call make? Can you > show an example of this? > > Does .version need to reside in same level as .config? Will a > `make clean' or `make mrproper'... destroy it?
cd /usr/src/linux echo "$(hostname)-" >localversion1 ln -s .version localversion2 will give each kernel a name with the hostname and version added. .version is automatically incremented each time you run make. Make mrproper will most likely remove it, but I've not used that since 2.4. -- Neil Bothwick Work is the curse of the partying class!
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