Re: AW: 2.2r5 with 2.4.18 kernel
On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 04:29:13PM +0200, MKolb@haitec.de wrote:
> On 21.08.2002 15:50:54 "Yildiz, Murat" wrote:
> > Do you know the meaning of the '#5' at the end of 2.4.18 #5 ??? How
> > does it become #5 , I have compiled a new kernel and have 2.4.18
> > #1...
[...]
> The 5 should be from the package version kernel-source-2.4.18 (2.4.18-5).
> It is configured when building the package and will be increased step by
> step.
Actually it doesn't (necessarily) correspond to the Debian revision
number; it just indicates the number of times you've built the same
kernel. The current #number is stored in the .version file at the top
level of the kernel source tree.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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