Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 97221
Extraverion doesn't work
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:54:46 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.0.0-10; Linux) Description of problem: Compile any of the red hat 9 kernels from the source rpms with extraversion non null in the toplevel makefile. After make modules_install the modules are installed in /lib/modules/version-extraversion. When booting that kernel, the version (as reported by uname) doesn't include the extraversion part and so no modules are ever found. Tobias Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-source-2.4.20-xxx.src.rpm How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Compile kernel with extraversion 2. make modules_install install 3. boot the new kernel Actual Results: Modules are not found. (the first failure is by depmod at boot) Expected Results: Find the modules Additional info:
the only way you can fudze with the EXTRAVERSION when you build from src.rpm is to change the Release: field in the spec.
My fault. I meant compiling the kernel after installing the kernel sources from the rpm kernel-source-2.4.20-18.9.i386.rpm (same with -13.9) You don't have to edit anything, extraversion is set in the makefile. Tobias
ok for that you need to start with make mrproper that way you can be sure version.h (the important part) gets remade
Ah ha! A make mrproper does indeed fix the problem. Strange that a fresh install of the sources from the rpm would require that though. Tobias.