Re: Linux 2.4.18

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

Followup to:  <20020225.150813.66161624.davem@redhat.com>
By author:    "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
>    From: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de>
>    Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 00:01:56 +0100
> 
>    > And how should EXTRAVERSION be accommodated?
>    
>    sed/perl/awk -- a short five-liner "bless-rc-to-final" script should do.
> 
> Ummm... no.
> 
> This whole conversation exists because "Deleting the EXTRAVERSION
> setting from linux/Makefile" then making new diffs/tars was screwed
> up.  Doing it with a script isn't going to help this kind of problem.
> 

Sure it would.  It would make the likelihood for errors much lower.
You need to make tarballs anyway.

> I repeat: it isn't a "release candidate" if it will not match preciely
> what the final tarball/patches contains.  Anything else opens up the
> possibility for errors to be made.

I think this is much too absolutist of an approach.  There is *always*
a possibility for errors to happen, but automation can reduce the risk
a lot.

If Marcelo wants, I can write him a "bless" script that he can run
directly on master.kernel.org, which would make it trivial to avoid
error.

	-hpa
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