ACK: [SRU Utopic] LP#1407755: include full version information in kernel build info

Chris J Arges chris.j.arges at canonical.com
Wed Jan 7 14:13:30 UTC 2015


Andy mentioned this will also be applied to master-next as well but
really only important when vivid gets backported to trusty.
The regex change makes sense.

Acked-by: Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges at canonical.com>

On 01/06/2015 05:18 AM, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> We applied some fixes from Dann Frazier to allow abi shadowing in PPAs,
> however this also inadvertantly cleaned up the uploadnum to be just the
> upload number itself, whereas it is intended to be "the reset of the
> version number".  This number is only used for identification in the
> kernel build number as reported by uname -v, and there it is appropriate
> for the version to be identified in full.  Following this email a patch
> for utopic/master-next.
> 
> Proposing for SRU to utopic.
> 
> NOTE: this only actually is visible in builds with augmented version,
> such as those in the lts-utopic in trusty.  Fixes a lack of complete
> version noted there by Brad Figg in testing.
> 
> -apw
> 




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