On Mon, 14 Feb 2022 at 13:06, Liviu Ionescu <i...@livius.net> wrote: > > > > > On 14 Feb 2022, at 14:28, Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > > In a .git checkout, pkgversion defaults to "git describe --match 'v*' > > --dirty" > > See scripts/qemu-version.sh > > I see. I would say that this is a different use case.
It's just a handy default for git checkouts. The primary use case of pkgversion is exactly "this is a downstream packaging of QEMU that wants to indicate that in the version string". -- PMM
