Re: Adding a pointrelease option to the spec

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Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> This might be useful for people building their own kernels:
> 
> --- kernel.spec 12 Nov 2007 22:05:50 -0000      1.237
> +++ kernel.spec 13 Nov 2007 17:05:39 -0000
> @@ -12,7 +12,16 @@
>  # that the kernel isn't the stock distribution kernel, for example,
>  # by setting the define to ".local" or ".bz123456"
>  #
> +# You may also add a "pointrelease" with or without the "buildid"
> +# so that your locally built kernel gets a version number that
> +# is higher than the kernel it is based on and lower than the
> +# next offical Fedora release.
> +#
>  #% define buildid .local
> +#% define pointrelease .1
> +%if 0{?pointrelease}
> +%define buildid {pointrelease}{?buildid}
> +%endif
> 
>  # fedora_build defines which build revision of this kernel version we're
>  # building. Rather than incrementing forever, as with the prior versioning

I generally just use buildid for the same, i.e., I set buildid to .xyz1,
.xyz2, .xyz3, etc as I rebuild a newer versions. I think its probably
not worth the extra lines added to the spec file (which, by the way, in
the example above, are missing a bunch of % symbols before the {. :)

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jwilson@xxxxxxxxxx


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