Re: Fedora Kernel Versioning

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On 08/28/2009 03:12 AM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> I'm building a new kernel, and am trying to follow the Fedora kernel
> version rules, so far without success.  The new kernel differs from the
> current kernel only in using PREEMPT instead of VOLUNTARY_PREEMPT.  I've
> modified the Makefile so that
>         EXTRAVERSION = .6-217.2.8.fc11-jon.x86_64
> instead of
>         EXTRAVERSION = .6-217.2.8.fc11.x86_64
> After making these edits, I ran "$ make rpm".
> 
> The result is not what I had expected.  The start of the generated RPM
> is at the end of this message.  As you can see, the name of the RPM is
> wrong, since all of the dashes, "-", of EXTRAVERSION, have been stripped
> from the name of the RPM, as thay also have been from some of the
> elements of the RPM: the Version and the Source RPM, though not from
> name of the actual kernel executable generated in /boot, etc.
> 
> Does anyone know what's going on?  How to fix it?

Have you read

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Building_a_custom_kernel

Rahul

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