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?
