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SubjectRe: Versioning of tree
Ryan Anderson wrote:
>
> Well, here's a patch that adds -BKxxxxxxxx to LOCALVERSION when a
> top-level BitKeeper tree is detected.
> [...]
> LOCALVERSION = $(subst $(space),, \
> $(shell cat /dev/null $(localversion-files)) \
> + $(subst ",,$(localversion-bk)) \

Surely there's no need for this? Can't the script spit out an
appropriate localversion* file instead?

Tools like Debian's make-kpkg have to work out the kernel version (for
use in the package name etc.) and it would be preferable if the method
for generating the version didn't change too often.

David Vrabel
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