Re: Plus '+' character when building kernel

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

On 2012-10-19 20:02 +0200, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:

> Tom H wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 9:14 PM, Amit <amit.uttam@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On a debian wheezy system, I am building upstream kernel using the
>>> following command:
>>>
>>> fakeroot make-kpkg --revision 3.6.0 --append-to-version -0-amd64 --initrd
>>> kernel_image kernel_headers
>>>
>>> The resulting package is:
>>>
>>> linux-image-3.6.0-0-amd64+_3.6.0_amd64.deb
>>>
>>> Notice the '+' character. How do I remove that?
>>
>> Prepend "LOCALVERSION=''"
>
> Interesting. What is the reason for this?

To make it clear that the kernel has not been built from a release tag,
but contains additional changes.  For more detailed information, see
commit 85a256d8e0116c8f5ad276730830f5d4d473344d.

Cheers,
       Sven