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kernel-package doesn't work if CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO is set

Bug #77649 reported by Theodore Ts'o
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kernel-package (Ubuntu)
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Nominated for Maverick by andrew thomas

Bug Description

Binary package hint: kernel-package

If building a kernel with CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO is enabled, so that the LOCALVERSION is automatically set to be the -git revision ID, then make-kpkg will fail to create a .deb. The problem is that make-kpkg needs to know the LOCALVERSION version that will be used, and it currently doesn't check for CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO and then call scripts/setlocalversion to determine the LOCALVERSION that will be used.

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Joseph Fannin (jfannin) wrote :

This still doesn't work in Gutsy:

| The UTS Release version in include/linux/utsrelease.h

| "2.6.23-ge8b8c977-dirty"

| does not match current version:

| "2.6.23-ge8b8c977-dirty-ge8b8c977-dirty-dirty"

| Please correct this.

| make: *** [install/linux-image-2.6.23-ge8b8c977-dirty-ge8b8c977-dirty-dirty] Error 2

...which seems to be related to the problem described in Debian bug #446879. That report doesn't mention it causing make-kpkg to fail, though.

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Jeremy Kerr (jk-ozlabs) wrote :

Confirmed on Hardy too. The problem is in /usr/share/kernel-package/ruleset/misc/version_vars.mk - we construct a version variable as follows:

version = $(VERSION).$(PATCHLEVEL) $(SUBLEVEL)$(EXTRAVERSION)$(iatv)$(LOCALVERSION)$(GIT_VERSION)

However, $(LOCALVERSION) already includes the contents of $(GITVERSION)

Perhaps conditionally setting $(GITVERSION) based on the value of CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO would be the solution?

Daniel T Chen (crimsun)
Changed in kernel-package:
status: New → Confirmed
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Joseph Fannin (jfannin) wrote :

This issue is no longer present in Karmic. I skipped Jaunty, so I can't speak for that release, but this is potentially closeable.

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Jeremy Kerr (jk-ozlabs) wrote :

Looks like it's back on lucid:

dpkg-gencontrol -DArchitecture=amd64 -isp \
   -plinux-image-2.6.35-rc6-g77a63f3 -P/home/jk/build/linux-2.6/debian/linux-image-2.6.35-rc6-g77a63f3/
dpkg-gencontrol: error: package linux-image-2.6.35-rc6-g77a63f3 not in control info
make[2]: *** [debian/stamp/binary/linux-image-2.6.35-rc6-g77a63f3] Error 255

debian/control refers to the non-localversion name:

[jk@b1 linux-2.6]$ grep '^\(Source\|Package\)' debian/control
Source: linux-source-2.6.35-rc6
Package: linux-headers-2.6.35-rc6
Package: linux-source-2.6.35-rc6
Package: linux-image-2.6.35-rc6
Package: linux-image-2.6.35-rc6-dbg
Package: linux-doc-2.6.35-rc6
Package: linux-manual-2.6.35-rc6
Package: linux-uml-2.6.35-rc6

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andrew thomas (atswartz) wrote :

Fixed in 12.036 available in sid

http://packages.debian.org/sid/kernel-package

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