Re: Re: Third-Party Software Needs Non-Debian Format for Kernel Version

[Thomas Vaughan <tevaughan@gmail.com>]

>> isn't supported per se. But when [the software], or the makefiles, parse the string
>>      3.12-1-amd64
>> they don't get the expected result. If the uname -r were the string
>>      3.12.9-1
>> then parsing it would yield the expected result.
>> ---END QUOTE FROM VENDOR---
>>
>> Is the reported kernel-version string, "3.12-1-amd64",
>> something that I could change by compiling a custom kernel?
>
> Might a shell script that output the expected string work?

An appropriately named shell script in the right place in the path
might take care of uname(1), but I don't see how to take care of
uname(2), the system call.

When the vendor says that the software parses the string, I think that
the software is calling uname().

So my question is whether there is a way by compiling a custom kernel
for me to alter what the uname() system call reports.

-- 
Thomas E. Vaughan