Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Feb 2002 20:09:09 -0500 | From | David Relson <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.4.18 |
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At 05:20 PM 2/25/02, you wrote: >David S. Miller wrote: > >>We can avoid this kind of mess in the future if the "-rc*" releases >>really are "release candidates" instead of "just another diff". > >And how should EXTRAVERSION be accommodated?
An idea :-)
The actual release could be automated by a script that copies the release candidate directory to a final directory, uses sed to correct EXTRAVERSION, then creates the tarball. Using a script would ensure that EXTRAVERSION is correctly handled and would create all necessary tarballs and signature files.
The "Kernel_Release" script would look something like:
mkdir /usr/src/linux-$1 ( cd /usr/src/linux-$1-rc$2 ; tar cf - ) | ( cd /usr/src/linux-$1 ; tar xf - ) sed s/EXTRAVERSION=.*/EXTRAVERSION/ < /usr/src/linux-$1-rc$2/Makefile > /usr/src/linux-$1/Makefile tar zcf linux-$1.tar.gz linux-$1 tar jcf linux-$1.tar.bz2 linux-$1 cp linux-$1.tar.gz linux-$1 jcf linux-$1.tar.bz2 linux-$1 ftp/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4 ... whatever other magic is neded ...
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