Re: Make kernel -dirty naming optional

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On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 02:44:36PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Erik Mouw <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > make mrproper
> > cp ../config-2.6 .config
> > yes no | make oldconfig
> > fakeroot make targz-pkg
> 
> fakeroot makes the working tree files appear to be owned by
> root.root but does not know git uses the file ownership
> information recorded in the index and uses it to detect if the
> working tree is dirty.  Because the index says they are owned by
> you (the one who pulled from the kernel.org and owns the files
> in the real world not fakeroot world), you get -dirty suffix.

Aha, thanks for the explanation.

> Perhaps "fakeroot -u" would help.

Yes, that helps, I just build linux-2.6.18-gd834c165.tar.gz. Thanks!


Erik

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