[Pkg-lustre-maintainers] Bug#501427: m-a changes the utsstring in include/linux/utsrelease.h if kernel is build with --append-to-version

Eduard Bloch edi at gmx.de
Tue Oct 7 19:02:31 UTC 2008


reassign 501427 lustre-source
retitle 501427 lustre build script resets version string in kernel headers
thanks

#include <hallo.h>
* Patrick Winnertz [Tue, Oct 07 2008, 11:05:50AM]:
> Package: module-assistant
> Version: 0.10.8
> Severity: critical
> 
> If you build a custom kernel with m-a maybe with this command:
>  make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version "-lustre-1.6.5.1"
> the file include/linux/utsrelease.h contains this definition:
> #define UTS_RELEASE "2.6.22-lustre-1.6.5.1"  /*(for a 2.6.22er kernel)*/
> 
> After building one module with m-a against this kernel with this options:
>  m-a -l 2.6.22-lustre-1.6.5.1 -t  build lustre

Are you kidding me? If somebody puts "rm -rf /" into some makefile then
you would blame the make authors?

m-a did NEVER rewrite that file. Bouncing to lustre-source, I could
reproduce that with lustre only.

Regards,
Eduard.

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