[PATCH 1/1] UBUNTU: expose the debian changelog version number via the kernel build number

[Tim Gardner]

Ben Collins wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 14:46 +0000, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
>> We currently expose the Ubuntu ABI via the basic kernel version
>> number (in /proc/version and uname) and expose the full version via
>> /proc/version_signature.  We do this to maintain stability in the naming
>> of our modules simplifying external module updates.  But this does mean
>> that the normal version is lacking some information needed to directly
>> identify the actual build, both to normal tools and more importantly in
>> the Oops/panic output:
> 
> Sweet. Mix this with removing the -ub- version we had in -1.1 for
> jaunty, and I'm all happy. ACK!
> 

+1 from me. Will we need to bug an archive admin to eventually delete
the -ub named packages?

Can we absolutely depend on 'ifneq ($(wildcard /CurrentlyBuilding),)' on
the buildd? To date, we've depended on it existing for nothing other
then determining concurrency level, which is benign.

rtg
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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com