Due to a typo "make binrpm-pkg" isn't working when using e.g. german locale. rpmbuild will tell me: error: bad date in %changelog: Mi Jul 24 2024 Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx> Reason is that setting "LC_ALL=C" must not be followed by a semicolon in order to affect the following "date" command. Fixes: 301c10908e42 ("kbuild: rpm-pkg: introduce a simple changelog section for kernel.spec") Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx> --- scripts/package/mkspec | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/scripts/package/mkspec b/scripts/package/mkspec index ead54d67a024..4dc1466dfc81 100755 --- a/scripts/package/mkspec +++ b/scripts/package/mkspec @@ -50,6 +50,6 @@ fi cat << EOF %changelog -* $(LC_ALL=C; date +'%a %b %d %Y') ${name} <${email}> +* $(LC_ALL=C date +'%a %b %d %Y') ${name} <${email}> - Custom built Linux kernel. EOF -- 2.43.0