Re: [PATCH v3] scripts/setlocalversion: fix a bug when LOCALVERSION is empty

From: Nico Schottelius
Date: Tue Jul 13 2021 - 05:10:55 EST




Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> I set LOCALVERSION to an empty string (with "export LOCALVERSION="). This
> prevented the kernel from adding a "+" sign to the kernel version. Since
> the commit 042da426f8eb, it no longer works and the kernel adds a "+" sign
> if LOCALVERSION is set and empty.
>
> If you don't like "if [ "${LOCALVERSION+set}" != "set" ]", then please
> provide some other way how to test if the variable is set.

I fail to see the problem you are solving, as that case works exactly
like I wrote in my last mail:

[11:09:03] nb3:~$ export LOCALVERSION=; [ -z "${LOCALVERSION}" ] && echo unset
unset
[11:09:27] nb3:~$ echo $BASH_VERSION
5.1.8(1)-release

Did you try that in your environment?


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