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| author | Sam Ravnborg <sam@mars.ravnborg.org> | 2006-01-09 21:20:34 +0100 |
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| committer | Sam Ravnborg <sam@mars.ravnborg.org> | 2006-01-09 21:20:34 +0100 |
| commit | cb58455c48dc43536e5548bdba4e916b2f0cf13d (patch) | |
| tree | cc54d3ba40c77bf2c949f3f689452e3492b7907b /security | |
| parent | a9aa1ffaac7c8d6f093bb8f7cdeea761a5e25f53 (diff) | |
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kbuild: KERNELRELEASE is only re-defined when buiding the kernel
To avoid running setlocalversion as root no longer (re-)define
KERNELRELEASE for each run. With this patch KERNELRELEASE is
only re-read when we do an actual kernel build.
Rationale behind this is "do as little as possible" when executing
make install - as root!
A new file named .kernelrelease is strored in the root of the kernel
tree containing the actual version string.
So when we use do a kernel build the .kernelrelease file will be updated.
But in all other situations it is left as-is.
To make it more visible the kernel now prints out the version being build.
Sample:
Building kernel 2.6.15-g63b794bf-dirty
...
...
The patch also un-exports VERSION PATCHLEVEL SUBLEVEL EXTRAVERSION LOCALVERSION
since all users of these are anyway broken - and none is left in the
tree.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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