Re: What is a Kernel?
On 2000-10-14 00:56, Ethan Benson wrote:
>> IMHO: For flavours to work properly:
>>
>> - ideally it should be integrated in the upstream kernel source.
>> Alternatively, in the Debian kernel source.
>>
>> - Debian kernel images should be compiled with the flavour "debian".
>
>just out of curiosity, why not use the extraversion feild normally
>used for the pre1,2,3 etc tags, but is unused for final kernel
>releases?
>
>i would not work for a pre kernel very well but for different builds
>of final kernels it should work fine no?
>
>or am i missing something obvious?
I agree, the EXTRAVERSION field should work fine. As for the "pre" kernels,
you could just append data to the original contents of the EXTRAVERSION field.
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