On 5/19/25 23:06, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
On Sonntag, 18. Mai 2025 10:57:33 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit Yi Zhao via
Gnupg-devel wrote:
When I build gunpg in Yocto, a "-unknown" suffix appears in the gpg
runtime version:
$ gpg --version
gpg (GnuPG) 2.5.5-unknown
This is because the configure will be re-generated by autoreconf in
Yocto. The autogen.sh will add "-unknown" suffix to PACKAGE_VERSION.
Now I have a simple patch to remove this suffix in autogen.sh.
I wonder if there is a more appropriate way to resolve this? Thanks.
Some Linux distributions have similar patches to remove this suffix because for
some reason or other they also regenerate the configure script. Since the Linux
distributions also apply other patches it's actually not nice that they remove
the suffix because they clearly don't ship the version that their packages
announce. If they don't like the "-unknown" suffix then they should append a
suffix like "-DISTRONAME" so that everybody knows that they don't use the
released version as-is.
If you use the released version without any other patches then using a patch
that just removes the "-suffix" is okay.
Thanks for your response. May I know why gnupg adds this suffix? As far
as I know, it is not uncommon to re-run autoreconf on the tarball.
And I found that other gnupg-related packages such as libksba,
libassuan, libgcrypt, pinentry, libgpg-error also add this suffix.
//Yi
Regards,
Ingo
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