Spinning kernel-vanilla packages via standard spec

Roland McGrath roland at redhat.com
Sat Mar 31 07:47:41 UTC 2007


> I kinda like it in %name whichever route we go here. Along the same 
> lines as Ingo's kernel-rt packages, it makes it easier to install them 
> in parallel with normal kernels for testing. 

I was just remembering about Ingo's -rt builds.  I hadn't looked.  What he
uses is nearly identical to what I wind up with.  It should be easy to use
a unified spec file for his -rt patch version too.

I've tweaked my hacks slightly to use name: kernel-vanilla and
kernel-branch for the git stuff.  For git builds, it now produces
e.g. kernel-upstream-2.6.20-2.6.21.rc5.97.1.3025
or kernel-roland-fedora-PAE-2.6.20-2.6.18.rc6.256.1.3025
using the tag and "commit number" from git (1.5) describe, so upgrades for
the same branch package should work right without the ginormous date string
release numbers I had before.  (Those changes are small but I don't have
intermediate diffs on hand since I didn't commit the old version.  I can
send you the new files if you want.)


Thanks,
Roland




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