From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:32:45 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] mtd-utils: bump version number In-Reply-To: <20091214104935.GA28375@buzzloop.caiaq.de> (Daniel Mack's message of "Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:49:35 +0800") References: <1260575109-7459-1-git-send-email-daniel@caiaq.de> <1260575725-7764-1-git-send-email-daniel@caiaq.de> <87ljh5sx5r.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> <20091214104935.GA28375@buzzloop.caiaq.de> Message-ID: <87hbrtssde.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Mack writes: Hi, Daniel> Ok, the master branch moved forward and I recognized that too late, Daniel> hence the two patches. Ok. >> It would be nice if the shortname could be computed from MTD_VERSION so >> things don't break when someone goes and changes the git id. GNU make >> unfortunately doesn't have a substring function, so the easiest solution >> is probably cut, E.G.: Daniel> I though about that too, but I wasn't sure whether the substring of the Daniel> SHA1 ID would always be 7 characters long. I fear that is choses to be Daniel> as short as possible but as long as necessary to be unique. Which would Daniel> then mean that it changes again at an aribitrary point. Currently it is (gitweb calls git rev-parse --short-7), but I get your point. This gitweb change is also very recent (since 1.6.6-rc1, released December 2nd). I'll add a comment about it. Daniel> Best thing woulod be if the mtd people would just tag a commit with a Daniel> new release number. I'll write them and see if I can make them do that Daniel> :) Yes, please - It has been 17 months since the last release, so it's about time. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard