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Nicky726

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[SOLVED] kernel26-selinux "ugly" release string

I am maintainer of kernel26-selinux in AUR. Recently I noticed that built kernel sais (uname -r) 2.6.35-selinux-gd4918f4-dirty instead just 2.6.35-selinux, which I would expect. I found option CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO which I think should solve it if set to no, but in that case the release string is actualy 2.6.35-selinux+ (note the plus symbol).

Would someone kindly tell me, what to change, so that uname -r would show just 2.6.35-selinux? Or give some arguments why the other way is better, in case it is?

PS Here is link for up-to-date tarball, as AUR doesn't yet support splitpackages: http://profi.edisk.cz/stahnout-soubor/1 … 1.9KB.html

PPS I am quite new to building kernel stuff, so please speak slowly to me.

Last edited by Nicky726 (2010-08-19 17:49:14)

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ngoonee

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Re: [SOLVED] kernel26-selinux "ugly" release string

Check out kernel26-ice. I've contributed to the PKGBUILD before, and still do. I believe one of the issues I helped deal with was this, just need the appropriate sed somewhere.

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Nicky726

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Re: [SOLVED] kernel26-selinux "ugly" release string

Thank you. I guess I found it, building now.

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Re: [SOLVED] kernel26-selinux "ugly" release string

That sort of suffix is appended when you're building below the root of a git repo. The kernel source itself might not be in a repo, but, for example, you may have a repo in ~/ and you're building out of ~/abs. There's no way I know of to limit the "depth" of a git repo, so moving it is the only solution.

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Nicky726

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Re: [SOLVED] kernel26-selinux "ugly" release string

So that's it. I have a git repository for every AUR package and when I test-build I do it in it.

Bad thing about the hack is that it leaves just 2.6.35, when in fact I would like it to keep the -selinux.

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Nicky726

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Re: [SOLVED] kernel26-selinux "ugly" release string

Well the sed line used in kernel26-ice is in fact wrong.

instead of:

sed 's/head=$(git rev-parse --verify --short HEAD 2>\/dev\/null)/0/' \
${srcdir}/linux-${_basekernel}/scripts/setlocalversion > \
${srcdir}/linux-${_basekernel}/scripts/setlocalversion

there should be:

sed -i 's/head=$(git rev-parse --verify --short HEAD 2>\/dev\/null)/0/' \
${srcdir}/linux-${_basekernel}/scripts/setlocalversion

as the former deletes contents of whole file.

EDIT:

And the contents of the if to be changed by the sed did changed too. So hopefully last modification of the hack is:

sed -i -e "s/head=\`git rev-parse --verify --short HEAD 2>\/dev\/null\`/0/" \
${srcdir}/linux-${_basekernel}/scripts/setlocalversion

Last edited by Nicky726 (2010-08-23 13:30:33)

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Re: [SOLVED] kernel26-selinux "ugly" release string

EDIT: nvm

Last edited by fukawi2 (2010-08-23 10:29:29)

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ngoonee

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Re: [SOLVED] kernel26-selinux "ugly" release string

Well the sed line used in kernel26-ice is in fact wrong.

instead of:

sed 's/head=$(git rev-parse --verify --short HEAD 2>\/dev\/null)/0/' \
${srcdir}/linux-${_basekernel}/scripts/setlocalversion > \
${srcdir}/linux-${_basekernel}/scripts/setlocalversion

there should be:

sed -i 's/head=$(git rev-parse --verify --short HEAD 2>\/dev\/null)/0/' \
${srcdir}/linux-${_basekernel}/scripts/setlocalversion

as the former deletes contents of whole file.

EDIT:

And the contents of the if to be changed by the sed did changed too. So hopefully last modification of the hack is:

sed -i -e "s/head=\`git rev-parse --verify --short HEAD 2>\/dev\/null\`/0/" \
${srcdir}/linux-${_basekernel}/scripts/setlocalversion

Yes, if you read the comments I commented that I'd already fixed that, but in git. The maintainer just hasn't gotten around to updating my fix to the AUR PKGBUILD.

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Nicky726

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Re: [SOLVED] kernel26-selinux "ugly" release string

Ups... guess I should have read them. Went straight for the PKBUILD and reinventing invented... hope will have more luck next time. Thanx.

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fr33ke

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Re: [SOLVED] kernel26-selinux "ugly" release string

If you add

LOCALVERSION=

to the make arguments it won't add that annoying plus.

Last edited by fr33ke (2010-08-25 12:05:19)