Make-kpkg fails due to a ‘+’/plus appended to the kernel version

This weekend i tried to compile a patched 2.6.35 kernel and wanted to install this on multiple machines. But it kept failing when the .deb files were created.

make-kpkg kept complaining that the kernel version, 2.6.35-rbd+ was not in the “control info”.

After some searching i found out this was due to CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO not being set.

Setting this to ‘y’ solved it for me, now my kernel compiled and got packed the way it should.

Last Updated on 16-10-2013 by Wido den Hollander