Just had a look at the 2.6.14 kernel image packages, and this is still a problem.
The .extraversion file that exists is not read by anything in the kernel makefiles supplied in the linux-headers package that I can see... "ln .extraversion localversion-debian" makes the module install scripts from the kernel work properly, but this is not completely correct behaviour since it's an extraversion, not a localversion, but this happens to work... Perhaps localversion-00debian would be better, to be sure it's first ahead of any other patches applied, but ideally the value should be in the Makefile as EXTRAVERSION, which would mean it could no longer be shared amongst the linux-headers-2.6.14-2-* packages. Another option would be modify the upstream Makefile to read .extraversion into EXTRAVERSION at the top of the Makefile... It's Debian-specific, and probably not the best solution given that there appears to be scripts out there reading .extraversion, eg. #333842. But it otherwise seems a good solution to me that doesn't require unsharing the Makefile. -- Paul "TBBle" Hampson, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8th year CompSci/Asian Studies student, ANU Shorter .sig for a more eco-friendly paperless office.
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