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On 11/9/2011 8:55 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 08:47:07 -0500, Mike Edenfield wrote: |
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>>> Are you saying then that every time you download new source files you |
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>>> have to create or cp new localversion* files in /usr/src/linux/ for |
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>>> this auto-numbering to work? |
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>> Yeah, though I wouldn't be surprised if there was already a |
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>> way to automate this that I just haven't bothered to learn. |
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> There is, but the file is called .version. The contents of this are |
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> appended to the kernel name when you have the relevant options set. There |
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> is no manual intervention needed. |
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But I still need to create .version every time I compile a |
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new set of kernel sources for the first time, right? That's |
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what I'm doing now (localversion2 is a symlink to .version) |
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--Mike |
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