Paul Howarth wrote:
Jay Cliburn wrote:
Is there a way to get the "-" included as part of the EXTRAVERSION
field when making a Fedora kernel? If I change EXTRAVERSION = -foo in
the master Makefile, I end up with an rpm named kernel-2.6.15foo.
I've tried escaping the dash, double-quoting the entire EXTRAVERSION
field, and manually setting KERNELVERSION = 2.6.15-foo, but nothing
seems to work.
You would end up with a dash is the version number, which is not an
allowed character. The last two dashes in a (default) RPM name separate
the version and release from the package name.
But if I follow the directions in the release notes, I get an
incorrectly named rpm, to wit:
kernel-2.6.151.2054_FC5-2.x86_64.rpm
It should be 2.6.15-1.whatever, not 2.6.151.whatever
Here's the relevant section from the release notes.
Every kernel gets a name based on its version number. This is the value
the uname -r command displays. The kernel name is defined by the first
four lines of the kernel Makefile. The Makefile has been changed to
generate a kernel with a different name from that of the running kernel.
To be accepted by the running kernel, a module must be compiled for a
kernel with the correct name. To do this, you must edit the kernel Makefile.
For example, if the uname -r returns the string 2.6.15-1.1948_FC5 ,
change the EXTRAVERSION definition from this:
EXTRAVERSION = -prep
to this:
EXTRAVERSION = -1.1948_FC5
That is, substitute everything from the final dash onward.
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