From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267971AbUIJWLb (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2004 18:11:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267973AbUIJWLa (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2004 18:11:30 -0400 Received: from pfepa.post.tele.dk ([195.41.46.235]:2089 "EHLO pfepa.post.tele.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267971AbUIJWL1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2004 18:11:27 -0400 Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 00:11:29 +0200 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Matt Mackall Cc: Christoph Hellwig , sam@ravnborg.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] read EXTRAVERSION from file Message-ID: <20040910221129.GC11338@mars.ravnborg.org> Mail-Followup-To: Matt Mackall , Christoph Hellwig , sam@ravnborg.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20040830151405.GA18836@lst.de> <20040910215353.GO5414@waste.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040910215353.GO5414@waste.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 04:53:53PM -0500, Matt Mackall wrote: > 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 Did something remotely similar. Name the file localversion* and it will be in KERNELRELEASE. Sam