Re: building 2.6.35
On Sun, Aug 15 2010, Stephen Powell wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 13:53:41 -0400 (EDT), Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>>
>> With the new versions of kernel-package in Squeeze, running
>> make-kpkg clean should almost never be required (if the upstream
>> Makefiles are not borked, as they rarely are). The new make-kpkg
>> starts by removing and re-creating ./debian almost always, so the
>> explicit clean is redundant.
>
> That would imply that things like --append-to-version and --revision
> must be specified on every invocation, correct? One cannot, for example,
> specify --append-to-version and --revision with the kernel_image
> target and then leave them off with a subsequent invocation for the
> modules_image target.
Yes, that is one unfortunate consequence of the change. However,
I just hit up arrow, since I usually build my kernel and modules
pretty much at the same time, so it is usually not that onerous (I also
use a shell script that uses the same VERSION AND REVISION VALUES,
WHICH MAKES IT EVEN LESS OF AN HEADACHE)
MANOJ
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