Re: Intend to package, create OSS/Free
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 05:09:54PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Hi,
> >>"Hamish" == Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> writes:
>
>
> >> /usr/src/modules/<mod-name>/, and runs ./debian/rules <target>.
> >> Additionally, the following information is provided in the
> >> environment:
> >> a) KVERS Contains the kernel version
> >> b) KSRC Contains the location of the kernel sources
> >> c) KMAINT Contains the Name of the maintainer to pass to PGP
> >> d) KEMAIL Caontains the email address of the maintainer
>
> Hamish> How is the package version number passed?
>
> <confused> What package are you talking about here?
I assume KVERS contains only the kernel version, eg 2.0.35.
make-kpkg modules_image allows you to specify a revision, which pcmcia
for example uses as part of the file .deb's version number. How
is the revision number passed?
> Hamish> Also, I'm terrible with make. Is there an easy way to test that
> Hamish> the four variables above have been provided and abort if not?
>
> Hmm, there are several ways. Off the top of my head:
Thanks.
Hamish
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