Re: Make kernel -dirty naming optional

[Erik Mouw <erik@harddisk-recovery.com>]

On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 11:07:43AM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 12:49:34PM +0200, Erik Mouw wrote:
> > FWIW, if I enable git name tagging, every kernel I compile is tagged as
> > "dirty", even if I cloned it directly from kernel.org and didn't make
> > any change to the source. That makes the "dirty" tag useless IMHO.
> 
> make mrproper
> make allmodconfig
> make prepare
> make kernelrelease 
> 	2.6.18-ga5fa393b
> vi MAINTAINERS
> make prepare
> make kernelrelease
> 	2.6.18-ga5fa393b-dirty
> 
> So it wrks for me.
> Can you provice a few more details what steps you do when you see it failing.

make mrproper
cp ../config-2.6 .config
yes no | make oldconfig
fakeroot make targz-pkg
...
Tarball successfully created in /home/erik/git/linux-2.6/linux-2.6.18-g4f5537de-dirty.tar.gz

(I use fakeroot in order to make sure that all files in the tarball are
root.root. Otherwise I would have to chown /lib/modules or modprobe
would complain.)


Erik

PS: I'm on holiday for a week, so don't expect an immediate reply.

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