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On Sun, 01 Feb 2009 12:31:27 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: |
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> I'm a little confused here... what exactly is in .version? Say if I |
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> wanted to identify the kernel as belonging to a specific machine. |
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> HOST is vm23. Now if I wanted to have an incrementing version string |
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> that included that host name what would I need in .version and how |
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> does the incrementing work? |
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> Do you mean 1 is added to string each time you call make? Can you |
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> show an example of this? |
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> Does .version need to reside in same level as .config? Will a |
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> `make clean' or `make mrproper'... destroy it? |
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cd /usr/src/linux |
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echo "$(hostname)-" >localversion1 |
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ln -s .version localversion2 |
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will give each kernel a name with the hostname and version |
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added. .version is automatically incremented each time you run make. |
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Make mrproper will most likely remove it, but I've not used that since |
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2.4. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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