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From: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [git commit branch/next] Makefile: use /etc/os-release for version info rather than /etc/br-version
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:07:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F3A86D8.5010605@lucaceresoli.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120214121000.DDC1090A9E@busybox.osuosl.org>

Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> commit: http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=451a887894faddef019e9a0628c21b5f2e9eee56
> branch: http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=refs/heads/next
>
> /etc/os-release is becoming a standard interface for distribution
> name/version info, so let's use that instead of the nonstandard
> /etc/br-version. Format of the file is something like:
>
> NAME=Buildroot
> VERSION=2012.02-rc1-00003-g2d10e81
> ID=buildroot
> VERSION_ID=2012.02-rc1
> PRETTY_NAME="Buildroot 2012.02-rc1"

Nice.
I just wish PRETTY_NAME had at least a "-dirty" suffix to make it
clear that it is not exactly equal to 2012.02-rc1 (at least when using
a git clone).

Luca

  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-14 16:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-14 12:08 [Buildroot] [git commit branch/next] Makefile: use /etc/os-release for version info rather than /etc/br-version Peter Korsgaard
2012-02-14 16:07 ` Luca Ceresoli [this message]
2012-02-14 16:18   ` Peter Korsgaard

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