Re: kernel flavours

From: Peter T. Breuer (ptb@it.uc3m.es)
Date: Sun Mar 19 2000 - 17:39:32 EST


"A month of sundays ago Masato Taruishi wrote:"
>
> In Debian GNU/Linux, it can make multiple flavours of the same
> kernel version. I think it is better that the original kernel
> can handle this feature. This is from Flavours.gz in kernel-package

What's the difference with "EXTRAVERSION" (which I've used successfully
i the past to build smp "flavours" of kernels)?

> +# FLAVOUR is like EXTRAVERSION, but it's meant for local use, and the
> +# dash between it and the rest of the version is supplied here. It's used
> +# by make-kpkg's --flavour switch, see /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/Flavours.

Perhaps you can amplify? What problem with EXTRAVERSION is this trying
to avoid?

Peter

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