On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 08:55 -0500, Jay Cliburn wrote: > 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. Speaking as a release notes writer/editor/wrangler, I can only say WORKSFORME throughout FC5 thus far. -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 Fedora Project Board: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board Fedora Docs Project: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject
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