Re: [gentoo-user] Re: set local kenel version

2009-06-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 13:13:06 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:

> You did already you made me look around better and finally
> recompile to test once more and now it works.
> 
> Some kind of operator dimmness going on before I guess.

.version isn't set until after the first make run, so it will show up as
blank the first time you compile a new kernel.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: set local kenel version

2009-06-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 13 June 2009 20:13:06 Harry Putnam wrote:
> Alan McKinnon  writes:
> > On Saturday 13 June 2009 18:05:37 Harry Putnam wrote:
> >> > Is that a real mistake, or just a typo in your mail?
> >>
> >> Its a typo... I just checked to make sure though.. would have been nice
> >> if a real missnaming was the problem.
> >>
> >> ls -l  /usr/src/linux/localversion*
> >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Jun 12 18:01 /usr/src/linux/localversion1
> >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Jun 12 18:01 /usr/src/linux/localversion2 ->
> >> .version
> >
> > Pity - I was hoping you'd have an easy fix here :-)
> >
> > localversion is a feature I never use, so I fear I won't be able to help
> > you much further...
>
> You did already you made me look around better and finally
> recompile to test once more and now it works.
>
> Some kind of operator dimmness going on before I guess.

:-)

That sounds awfully familiar, I wonder who do I know that does that all the 
time himself?

Oh wait, it's me :-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: set local kenel version

2009-06-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 13 June 2009 18:05:37 Harry Putnam wrote:
> > Is that a real mistake, or just a typo in your mail?
>
> Its a typo... I just checked to make sure though.. would have been nice if
> a real missnaming was the problem.
>
> ls -l  /usr/src/linux/localversion*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Jun 12 18:01 /usr/src/linux/localversion1
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Jun 12 18:01 /usr/src/linux/localversion2 ->
> .version

Pity - I was hoping you'd have an easy fix here :-)

localversion is a feature I never use, so I fear I won't be able to help you 
much further...


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