EXTRAVERSION ignores "-" when making kernel from src.rpm
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Tue Aug 8 13:42:56 UTC 2006
Jay Cliburn wrote:
> Is there a way to get the "-" included as part of the EXTRAVERSION field
> when making a Fedora kernel? If I change EXTRAVERSION = -foo in the
> master Makefile, I end up with an rpm named kernel-2.6.15foo. I've
> tried escaping the dash, double-quoting the entire EXTRAVERSION field,
> and manually setting KERNELVERSION = 2.6.15-foo, but nothing seems to work.
You would end up with a dash is the version number, which is not an
allowed character. The last two dashes in a (default) RPM name separate
the version and release from the package name.
Paul.
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