Since 2df8220cc511 ("kbuild: build init/built-in.a just once"), generating Debian packages using 'make bindeb-pkg' results in packages that are stuck to the same .version, leading to unexpected behaviours (multiple packages with the same version). That's because the mkdebian script samples the build version before building the kernel, and forces the use of that version number for the actual build. Restore the previous behaviour by calling init/build-version instead of reading the .version file. This is likely to result in too many .version bumps, but this is what was happening before (although the bump was affecting builds made after the current one). Eventually, this script should be turned into something that is a bit less counter-intuitive (building the kernel first and only then generating the packaging artefacts). Fixes: 2df8220cc511 ("kbuild: build init/built-in.a just once") Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Marek <michal.lkml@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Notes: v2: Drop the RPM version which was wrong, and make the path relative to $srctree. scripts/package/mkdebian | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/scripts/package/mkdebian b/scripts/package/mkdebian index 60a2a63a5e90..a3ac5a716e9f 100755 --- a/scripts/package/mkdebian +++ b/scripts/package/mkdebian @@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ if [ -n "$KDEB_PKGVERSION" ]; then packageversion=$KDEB_PKGVERSION revision=${packageversion##*-} else - revision=$(cat .version 2>/dev/null||echo 1) + revision=$($srctree/init/build-version) packageversion=$version-$revision fi sourcename=$KDEB_SOURCENAME -- 2.34.1