Git question

M A Young m.a.young at durham.ac.uk
Tue Aug 24 17:55:11 UTC 2010


On Tue, 24 Aug 2010, Steve Dickson wrote:

> On 08/24/2010 10:46 AM, M A Young wrote:
>> On Tue, 24 Aug 2010, Steve Dickson wrote:
>>
>>> Also, the kernel that is currently being built from my pnfs-13 branch
>>> fails to install with the following error:
>>>
>>>    FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.34.5-43.pnfs_all_2.6.35_2010_08_19.fc13.x86_64-pnfs/modules.dep: No such file or directory
>>>
>>> The extra "-pnfs" on the 2.6.34.5-43... directory name is the problem.
>>> It probably has something to do with how I changed the buildid:
>>
>> I suspect it has nothing to do with the buildid (I use one and don't have
>> the problem). I would check the kernel version file in the source (I don't
>> know offhand what it is called) and see if -pnfs is added there. If it is
>> add a patch to remove it.
> Does anybody know the name of the file Michael is talking about?

I was misremembering a bit. What may be adding that extra bit is any file 
in the base of the kernel tree of the form localversion* which get sucked 
in by the base level Makefile.

 	Michael Young


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