comments?
I think there's no point to add support to automatic patching
of the extraversion kernels as the naming is so inconsistent.
another thing is the jump from 51 to 99 n the sublevel
from the 2.3.51 to 2.3.99-pre1
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--- patch-kernel-backup Wed Mar 15 00:15:11 2000
+++ patch-kernel Wed Mar 15 00:38:43 2000
@@ -27,14 +27,22 @@
stopvers=${3-imnotaversion}
# set current VERSION, PATCHLEVEL, SUBLEVEL
-eval `sed -n 's/^\([A-Z]*\) = \([0-9]*\)$/\1=\2/p' $sourcedir/Makefile`
+eval `head -4 $sourcedir/Makefile | sed -e 's/ //g'`
if [ -z "$VERSION" -o -z "$PATCHLEVEL" -o -z "$SUBLEVEL" ]
then
echo "unable to determine current kernel version" >&2
exit 1
fi
-echo "Current kernel version is $VERSION.$PATCHLEVEL.$SUBLEVEL"
+echo -n "Current kernel version is $VERSION.$PATCHLEVEL.$SUBLEVEL"
+if [ -n "$EXTRAVERSION" ];
+then
+ echo "$EXTRAVERSION"
+ echo "unable to cope with 'extraversion' kernels" >&2
+ exit 1
+else
+ echo ""
+fi
while :
do
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