Re: Plus '+' character when building kernel

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2012-10-19 20:02 +0200, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
>
> > Tom H wrote:
> > > On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 9:14 PM, Amit <amit.uttam@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > On a debian wheezy system, I am building upstream kernel using the
> > > > following command:
> > > >
> > > > fakeroot make-kpkg --revision 3.6.0 --append-to-version -0-amd64 --initrd
> > > > kernel_image kernel_headers
> > > >
> > > > The resulting package is:
> > > >
> > > > linux-image-3.6.0-0-amd64+_3.6.0_amd64.deb
> > > >
> > > > Notice the '+' character. How do I remove that?
> > > Prepend "LOCALVERSION=''"
> > Interesting. What is the reason for this?
>
> To make it clear that the kernel has not been built from a release tag,
> but contains additional changes.  For more detailed information, see
> commit 85a256d8e0116c8f5ad276730830f5d4d473344d.

Thanks Sven. The reason I ask is that I just built 3.6.2 from upstream with:

CONCURRENCY_LEVEL=2 make-kpkg --revision 3.6.2 --append-to-version 
-nodeb-amd64 --initrd kernel_image

and I got just:

linux-image-3.6.2-nodeb-amd64_3.6.2_amd64.deb

Hugo