Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Mar 2005 18:25:56 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [BUG] 2.6.11- sym53c8xx Broken on pp64 |
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On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > BTW, Linus: Any chance you ever change something to version or > extraversion in bk just after a release ? I know I already ask and it > degenerated into a flamefest, and I don't know if that is specifically > the case now, but I keep getting report of people saying "I have a bug > in 2.6.xx" while in fact, they have some kind of bk clone of sometime > after 2.6.xx...
The answer is the same: I'd still like to have somebody (preferably Sam) who is comfortable with all the build scripts get a revision-control- specific version at build-time, so that BK users would get the top-of-tree key value, and other people could get some CVS revision or something.
I don't want to tag things just randomly, especially as it would be very error-prone (read: I'd forget). A script that looks at the top revision, and if it's not a tag, takes the key value and appends it to the build version seems to be The Right Thing (tm).
I have this dim memory that Sam might even have had some early trials, but maybe thats just wishful thinking.. Sam?
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