From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LThkc-0005cR-CT for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 01 Feb 2009 19:13:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EF118E059B; Sun, 1 Feb 2009 19:11:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2E14E059B for ; Sun, 1 Feb 2009 19:11:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from krikkit (krikkit.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 777043DF6DC for ; Sun, 1 Feb 2009 19:11:48 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 19:11:46 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When did bzImage move? Message-ID: <20090201191146.321605d0@krikkit> In-Reply-To: <87zlh6dn5s.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <49850BBC.9060302@gmail.com> <200902010402.18188.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <4985186C.2040001@gmail.com> <200902010442.07025.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <20090201154807.383f6e6c@krikkit> <87zlh6dn5s.fsf@newsguy.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.0cvs53 (GTK+ 2.14.7; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/U3KwyiS3x08GsyxAfM_mU/S"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 4013393d-b1ae-4464-9e48-4795475f7b1c X-Archives-Hash: 0de0eb4b391fa72059e2b06510ce81b7 --Sig_/U3KwyiS3x08GsyxAfM_mU/S Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 01 Feb 2009 12:31:27 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > I'm a little confused here... what exactly is in .version? Say if I > wanted to identify the kernel as belonging to a specific machine. > HOST is vm23. Now if I wanted to have an incrementing version string > that included that host name what would I need in .version and how > does the incrementing work? >=20 > Do you mean 1 is added to string each time you call make? Can you > show an example of this? >=20 > Does .version need to reside in same level as .config? Will a=20 > `make clean' or `make mrproper'... destroy it?=20 cd /usr/src/linux echo "$(hostname)-" >localversion1 ln -s .version localversion2 will give each kernel a name with the hostname and version added. .version is automatically incremented each time you run make. Make mrproper will most likely remove it, but I've not used that since 2.4. --=20 Neil Bothwick Work is the curse of the partying class! --Sig_/U3KwyiS3x08GsyxAfM_mU/S Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkmF8/IACgkQum4al0N1GQOMPgCbBBa7gOb7hMmQjs0O2y/NG4z3 9P0An2FbuCv9zLbqBo75Jp+3bnClDyAd =dFWP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/U3KwyiS3x08GsyxAfM_mU/S--