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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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