On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 03:12 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > 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 I had glanced at it, but didn't think that such elaborate instructions were needed for such a simple change. I'll investigate as soon as I get back from an appointment this evening. Thanks - jon -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
