Re: [PATCH,RFC 1/3] Change CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO to use a git-describe-ish format

2008-01-03 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 09:52:59PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > Change the automatic local version to have the form -n-gSHA1SUMID, > where 'n' is the number of commits since the last tag (i.e., > 2.6.21-rc7). This makes it much more likely that the package names created > for the kernel

Re: [PATCH,RFC 1/3] Change CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO to use a git-describe-ish format

2008-01-03 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 09:52:59PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: Change the automatic local version to have the form -n-gSHA1SUMID, where 'n' is the number of commits since the last tag (i.e., 2.6.21-rc7). This makes it much more likely that the package names created for the kernel will

[PATCH,RFC 1/3] Change CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO to use a git-describe-ish format

2007-11-02 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Change the automatic local version to have the form -n-gSHA1SUMID, where 'n' is the number of commits since the last tag (i.e., 2.6.21-rc7). This makes it much more likely that the package names created for the kernel will look "newer" to a package manager. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o"

[PATCH,RFC 1/3] Change CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO to use a git-describe-ish format

2007-11-02 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Change the automatic local version to have the form -n-gSHA1SUMID, where 'n' is the number of commits since the last tag (i.e., 2.6.21-rc7). This makes it much more likely that the package names created for the kernel will look newer to a package manager. Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o