Re: [Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 2.0.0-rc0 is now available

[Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>]

On Mo, 2014-03-17 at 19:30 +0100, Andreas Färber wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Am 14.03.2014 04:19, schrieb Anthony Liguori:
> > On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of the
> > first release candidate for the QEMU 2.0 release.  This release is meant
> > for testing purposes and should not be used in a production environment.
> > 
> > http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qemu-2.0.0-rc0.tar.bz2
> 
> I've run into an issue with the SeaBIOS submodule included in the QEMU
> tarball: The SeaBIOS scripts/buildversion.sh script looks for a .git
> directory or file and, if absent, goes on to look for a .version file,
> neither of which the QEMU tarball ships. That means it will fall back to
> "?" as version, whereas the binary blob contributed by Gerd displays
> "rel-1.7.4-0-g96917a8".

I build them from a git checkout, where it works as .git is present.

> Should our tarball workflow include generating a roms/seabios/.version
> file based on git-describe in that directory to fix this mismatch?

Makes sense.

cheers,
  Gerd