Re: [BUG?] Wrong RC reported during 'make install'

[Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>]

On 19.02.2025 19:04, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> Oleksii has asked for RC5, and we're overdue.  I'm intending to commit:
> 
> diff --git a/xen/Makefile b/xen/Makefile
> index 65b460e2b480..4e37fff92514 100644
> --- a/xen/Makefile
> +++ b/xen/Makefile
> @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ this-makefile := $(call lastword,$(MAKEFILE_LIST))
>  # All other places this is stored (eg. compile.h) should be autogenerated.
>  export XEN_VERSION       = 4
>  export XEN_SUBVERSION    = 20
> -export XEN_EXTRAVERSION ?= -rc$(XEN_VENDORVERSION)
> +export XEN_EXTRAVERSION ?= .0-rc5$(XEN_VENDORVERSION)
>  export XEN_FULLVERSION   =
> $(XEN_VERSION).$(XEN_SUBVERSION)$(XEN_EXTRAVERSION)
>  -include xen-version
>  
> in order to make that happen properly, and finally have the tarball be a
> straight `git archive` invocation.
> 
> Does this sound acceptable?

Yes. It's not optimal that the file then needs touching for every RC, but
then again it's also no different from what we do on every stable release.

Jan