Re: Naming Custom Kernels

[Martin Würtele <martin@wuertele.net>]

On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 03:31:49PM -0500, David Raeker-Jordan wrote:

(...)

> What is EXTRAVERSION for and what problems might I cause? Is EXTRAVERSION
> only to be used by the official maintainer, or can it safely be edited by
> mere mortals?

AFAIK EXTRAVERSION is used for patched kernels, e.g. when I applied raid
patches for kernel 2.2.xx they became 2.2.xx-RAID, same I had with IDE
patches.

dpkg -l kernel-image-2.4.* 

returns 
(...)
ii  kernel-image-2.4.0   custom.1.0   Linux kernel binary image for version 
2.4.0

yours martin
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