I understand the purpose of it, I am saying that it isn't useful in actual releases, or in tarballs prepared as if they are releases because the information isn't there to get generated in the first place.
Build a release tarball with build_asf.sh and see if the file provides you anything useful. --David On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:39 PM, Rayees Namathponnan <rayees.namathpon...@citrix.com> wrote: > Hi David, > > This will be useful with RPM installation; you need to execute the command > "cloudstack-sccs" to get the git commit after installing RPM. > > This is similar like command "cloud-sccs" before 4.1 release. > > Regards, > Rayees > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Nalley [mailto:da...@gnsa.us] > Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 3:12 PM > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org; Rayees Namathponnan > Cc: Chip Childers; Frank Zhang; Hugo Trippaers; ASF Subversion and Git > Services > Subject: Re: Review Request 14843: CLOUDSTACK-1049 : git commit by using > command cloudstack-sccs from installed setup > > Rayees: > > While it doesn't technically break things, it isn't very refined: > Here's the output from a machine using a release tarball on a machine without > git: > ++ git rev-parse HEAD > /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.JvKJtB: line 33: git: command not found > + echo > E.g. when you actually go to release software, the file will be empty. > > When you do the same with a release tarball on a machine with git: > ++ git rev-parse HEAD > fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git > + echo > > > Keep in mind we build a release tarball and it strips out all of the git > information. Can we come up with a more refined solution that if the above > git rev-parse fails that we also look elsewhere? > > --David > > --David > > On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 8:12 PM, Rayees Namathponnan > <rayees.namathpon...@citrix.com> wrote: >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------- >> This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: >> https://reviews.apache.org/r/14843/ >> ----------------------------------------------------------- >> >> (Updated Oct. 23, 2013, 12:12 a.m.) >> >> >> Review request for cloudstack, Chip Childers, Frank Zhang, and Hugo >> Trippaers. >> >> >> Bugs: CLOUDSTACK-1049 >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-1049 >> >> >> Repository: cloudstack-git >> >> >> Description >> ------- >> >> The generation of sccs-info was done by WAF but has been broken from >> 4.2 onwords; >> >> updated cloud.spec file to generate git commit and package with rpm >> >> if you are building outside git tree, this file will be blank; and >> packaging works fine >> >> >> Diffs >> ----- >> >> packaging/centos63/cloud.spec 17fb2b1 >> packaging/centos63/cloudstack-sccs PRE-CREATION >> >> Diff: https://reviews.apache.org/r/14843/diff/ >> >> >> Testing >> ------- >> >> Tested >> >> >> File Attachments (updated) >> ---------------- >> >> We need to merge with 4.2 branch; submitting patch for this >> >> https://reviews.apache.org/media/uploaded/files/2013/10/23/0001-CLOUDS >> TACK-1049-git-commit-from-installed-cloudstack.patch >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Rayees Namathponnan >>
