Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] kbuild: deb-pkg: allow to set package name version

[Nicolas Schier]

> Instead of hardcoding ${KERNELRELEASE} in the package name allow
> the user to override this.
> 
> This can be useful if one doesn't want to accumulate different packages
> for every commit or micro version bump by setting
> KDEB_PKGNAMEVERSION=7.3 or even KDEB_PKGNAMEVERSION=stable.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Guido Günther <agx@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> diff --git a/scripts/package/mkdebian b/scripts/package/mkdebian
> index d4b007b38a47..44ca9991fd6f 100755
> --- a/scripts/package/mkdebian
> +++ b/scripts/package/mkdebian
> @@ -172,6 +172,12 @@ else
>  	packagename=linux-image
>  fi
>  
> +if [ "${KDEB_PKGNAMEVERSION:+set}" ]; then
> +	packagenameversion=$KDEB_PKGNAMEVERSION
> +else
> +	packagenameversion=$KERNELRELEASE
> +fi
> +
>  debarch=
>  set_debarch
>  
> @@ -215,7 +221,7 @@ Build-Depends-Arch: bc, bison, flex,
>   python3:native, rsync
>  Homepage: https://www.kernel.org/
>  
> -Package: $packagename-${KERNELRELEASE}
> +Package: $packagename-${packagenameversion}
>  Architecture: $debarch
>  Description: Linux kernel, version ${KERNELRELEASE}
>   This package contains the Linux kernel, modules and corresponding other

For completeness, I'd like to have something like

    Conflicts: linux-image-${KERNELRELEASE}
    Replaces: linux-image-${KERNELRELEASE}

here (and similar below), if ${KERNELRELEASE} != ${packagenameversion};
but probably it's not worth the effort.

I'll queue this patch set for 7.5, thanks!

-- 
Nicolas