Chuck Ebbert wrote:> This might be useful for people building their own kernels:
>
> --- kernel.spec 12 Nov 2007 22:05:50 -0000 1.237
> +++ kernel.spec 13 Nov 2007 17:05:39 -0000
> @@ -12,7 +12,16 @@
> # that the kernel isn''t the stock distribution kernel, for
example,
> # by setting the define to ".local" or ".bz123456"
> #
> +# You may also add a "pointrelease" with or without the
"buildid"
> +# so that your locally built kernel gets a version number that
> +# is higher than the kernel it is based on and lower than the
> +# next offical Fedora release.
> +#
> #% define buildid .local
> +#% define pointrelease .1
> +%if 0{?pointrelease}
> +%define buildid {pointrelease}{?buildid}
> +%endif
>
> # fedora_build defines which build revision of this kernel version
we''re
> # building. Rather than incrementing forever, as with the prior versioning
I generally just use buildid for the same, i.e., I set buildid to .xyz1,
.xyz2, .xyz3, etc as I rebuild a newer versions. I think its probably
not worth the extra lines added to the spec file (which, by the way, in
the example above, are missing a bunch of % symbols before the {. :)
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Jarod Wilson
jwilson@redhat.com