Re: Versioning of tree

Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-20T08:49:43Z

On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 18:22, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > Hi Linus !
> >
> > After you tag a "release" tree in bk, could you bump the version number
> > right away, with eventually some junk in EXTRAVERSION like "-devel" ?
> >
> > It's quite painful to have a module dir name clash between the "clean"
> > final tree and whatever dev stuff we are testing out of bk ... it's fine
> > once you go to -rc1, but in the meantime, it's really annoying.
>
> echo "-bk" > localversion
> make
>
> You can do it just as easily as anyone else :)

Of course I can, and of course I keep forgetting... :) And a bunch of ppl
are apparently having the same problem :) Not even counting a guy this
morning reporting me of "problems with 2.6.9" while he was actually using
the bk top of tree from yesterday night...

But well, it's up to Linus :) I just though it would be convenient ...

Ben.