Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.4.18 | Date | 25 Feb 2002 15:34:14 -0800 |
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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.
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