Bug#330081: Followup on localversion/extraversion override
In article <[🔎] 20051204134730.GA1250@keitarou.queanbeyan.bubblesworth.net> you wrote:
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> Just had a look at the 2.6.14 kernel image packages, and this is still a
> problem.
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> The .extraversion file that exists is not read by anything in the kernel
> makefiles supplied in the linux-headers package that I can see...
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> "ln .extraversion localversion-debian" makes the module install scripts
> from the kernel work properly, but this is not completely correct
> behaviour since it's an extraversion, not a localversion, but this
> happens to work...
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> Perhaps localversion-00debian would be better, to be sure it's first
> ahead of any other patches applied, but ideally the value should be in
> the Makefile as EXTRAVERSION, which would mean it could no longer be
> shared amongst the linux-headers-2.6.14-2-* packages.
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> Another option would be modify the upstream Makefile to read
> .extraversion into EXTRAVERSION at the top of the Makefile... It's
> Debian-specific, and probably not the best solution given that there
> appears to be scripts out there reading .extraversion, eg. #333842. But
> it otherwise seems a good solution to me that doesn't require unsharing
> the Makefile.
Manoj,
being the extraversions expert, do you have any thoughts on this.
The current situation seems less than ideal.
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Horms
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