Like in my initial patch [1] lsb_release is a good choice to determine the distribution name for debian/changelog. Its installation is no precondition. Ben gave some helpful and detailed information in [2]. There he also suggested to have an option to explicitly set the distribution name (see $KDEB_CHANGELOG_DIST variable). I have hardcoded the script-name into the outputs when we fallback to the default distribution name. This is a bit ugly. Based on the snippet of Ben (see [2]). Tested against Linux v3.19-rc2. Thanks goes to Thorsten and Alexander for the vital help in 2012. Equally thanks to maximilian and Ben for the comments on my patches. [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/23/516 [2] http://marc.info/?l=linux-kbuild&m=142022188322321&w=2 CC: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> CC: maximilian attems <max@xxxxxxx> CC: Thorsten Glaser <tg@xxxxxxxxxx> CC: Alexander Wirt <formorer@xxxxxxxxxx> CC: Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx> CC: linux-kbuild@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Suggested-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@xxxxxxxxx> --- v3: Massaged the commit-message v2: Suppress error messages when lsb_release is not installed. (Thanks maximilian and Ben.) scripts/package/builddeb | 14 +++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/scripts/package/builddeb b/scripts/package/builddeb index 5972624..6918429 100755 --- a/scripts/package/builddeb +++ b/scripts/package/builddeb @@ -217,9 +217,21 @@ else fi maintainer="$name <$email>" +# Try to determine distribution +codename=$(lsb_release --codename --short 2> /dev/null) +if [ -n "$KDEB_CHANGELOG_DIST" ]; then + distribution=$KDEB_CHANGELOG_DIST +elif [ -n "$codename" ]; then + distribution=$codename +else + distribution="unstable" + echo "builddeb: Using default distribution of 'unstable' in the changelog" + echo "builddeb: Install lsb-release or set \$KDEB_CHANGELOG_DIST to change this" +fi + # Generate a simple changelog template cat <<EOF > debian/changelog -linux-upstream ($packageversion) unstable; urgency=low +linux-upstream ($packageversion) $distribution; urgency=low * Custom built Linux kernel. -- 2.2.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
