Recent Fedora Core kernels (plus my SPEC file for 2.6.8-1.541 with Athlon support)

Lennert Buytenhek buytenh at wantstofly.org
Sun Sep 26 18:23:47 UTC 2004


On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 02:10:16PM -0400, Bryan J. Smith wrote:

> 2.  There is another variable in EXTRAVERSIONS, defaults to "root"

I assume to distinguish Red Hat-blessed kernels from home-built kernels.
There's a comment in the spec file indicating something along those
lines:

	#
	# Polite request for people who spin their own kernel rpms:
	# please modify the "release" field in a way that identifies
	# that the kernel isn't the stock distribution kernel, for example by
	# adding some text to the end of the version number.
	#
	[...]
	%define rhbsys  %([ -r /etc/beehive-root ] && echo  || echo .`whoami`)
	%define release %(R="$Revision: 1.339 $"; RR="${R##: }"; echo ${RR%%?})%{rhbsys}


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