From: David Vrabel <dvrabel@arcom.com>
To: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Versioning of tree
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 12:49:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <417E39AE.5020209@arcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041025234736.GF10638@michonline.com>
Ryan Anderson wrote:
>
> Well, here's a patch that adds -BKxxxxxxxx to LOCALVERSION when a
> top-level BitKeeper tree is detected.
> [...]
> LOCALVERSION = $(subst $(space),, \
> $(shell cat /dev/null $(localversion-files)) \
> + $(subst ",,$(localversion-bk)) \
Surely there's no need for this? Can't the script spit out an
appropriate localversion* file instead?
Tools like Debian's make-kpkg have to work out the kernel version (for
use in the package name etc.) and it would be preferable if the method
for generating the version didn't change too often.
David Vrabel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-26 11:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-20 6:49 Versioning of tree Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-20 7:22 ` Len Brown
2004-10-20 14:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-21 1:38 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-21 15:33 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-10-21 15:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-21 16:49 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-21 17:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-21 23:03 ` kbuild (was Re: Versioning of tree) Jeff Garzik
2004-10-30 23:34 ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-10-25 23:47 ` Versioning of tree Ryan Anderson
2004-10-26 11:49 ` David Vrabel [this message]
2004-10-26 12:26 ` Ryan Anderson
2004-10-26 12:58 ` David Vrabel
2004-10-26 19:08 ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-10-26 18:04 ` Ryan Anderson
2004-10-26 19:11 ` Ian Campbell
2004-10-27 8:38 ` Ryan Anderson
2004-10-27 11:37 ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-10-20 8:22 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-20 8:39 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-20 10:36 ` Måns Rullgård
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2004-10-20 18:27 Chuck Ebbert
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