NAME

linux_release_tag - prints kernel version of a Linux kernel Makefile

SYNOPSIS

linux_release_tag [ MAKEFILE ] [ FORMAT ]

DESCRIPTION

This script extracts the version information from a Linux kernel makefile and prints it according to the format specification indicated by FORMAT (which, by default, prints something in the form of '2.6.24-rc13-git42'.)

MAKEFILE must be a path to a valid kernel Makefile. If not specified, it defaults to /usr/src/linux/Makefile.

FORMAT is a string containing one or more of the following tags, which are substituted by the relevant items from the kernel makefile:

  %v - VERSION
  %p - PATCHLEVEL
  %s - SUBLEVEL
  %e - EXTRAVERSION
  %n - NAME

If not specified, FORMAT defaults to "%v.%p.%s%e".

SEE ALSO

crucible, WWW::PkgFind, Test::Parser, Linux::Distribution

AUTHOR

Bryce Harrington [bryce at osdl dot org]

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2006 Bryce Harrington and Open Source Development Labs All Rights Reserved.

This script is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

REVISION

Revision: $Revision: 1.10 $