From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@waste.org>,
sam@ravnborg.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] read EXTRAVERSION from file
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 16:53:53 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040910215353.GO5414@waste.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040830151405.GA18836@lst.de>
On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 05:14:05PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> The're an very interesting patch in the Debian tree still from the time
> where Herbert Xu mentioned it, it allows creating a file .extraversion
> in the toplevel kernel directory and the Makefile will set EXTRAVERSION
> to it's contents. This has the nice advantage of keeping an
> extraversion pre-tree instead of having to patch the Makefile and
> getting rejects everytime you pull a new tree (or BK refuses to touch
> the Makefile).
>
> The only thing I'm not fully comfortable is the .extraversion name, I
> think I'd prefer a user-visible name.
>
> Any other comments on this one?
(catching up)
Consider this approach as a more flexible alternative:
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=oxymoron+patch+names&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=fa.jif8l5v.1b049jd%40ifi.uio.no&rnum=1
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Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-10 21:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-30 15:14 [PATCH] read EXTRAVERSION from file Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-30 15:35 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2004-08-30 16:18 ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-08-31 6:20 ` Frank Steiner
2004-09-10 21:53 ` Matt Mackall [this message]
2004-09-10 22:11 ` Sam Ravnborg
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