Ping. Regards, Carl-Daniel
On 05.06.2009 21:28, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > On 30.05.2009 16:30, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > >> Two new targets: >> make export >> make tarball >> Both preserve svn revisions and the exported tree does not depend on >> subversion in any way or shape. >> >> Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <[email protected]> >> >> > > We need this for five reasons: > 1. Packagers currently have to patch flashrom source to compile it on > systems without subversion. We should make it easier for them. > 2. Snapshot tarballs currently have a .svn 1.5 directory included but > this will cause errors for users with older svn 1.4. Not requiring > subversion for snapshot compilation is best. > 3. Since packagers seldom the svn revision in their fixup patches, some > packages out there have incorrect or no revision, only major version > numbers. > 4. Releasing a new version of flashrom needs too many changes to the > makefile which have to be reverted instantly after the release. That is > unnecessary churn. > 5. Making a release is easy with the change. Update the major version, > then run "make tarball". > > Regards, > Carl-Daniel > > -- http://www.hailfinger.org/ -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
