On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 12:45 -0700, Jeff Schroeder wrote: > On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Stephen Gallagher <sgall...@redhat.com> > wrote: > > On Wed, 2011-09-07 at 10:38 +0200, Pavel Březina wrote: > >> https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/ticket/953 > > > > > > Nack. > > > > The output of this patch isn't very clean. I think what we really want > > is just to have a configure flag --with-distro-version that will take an > > arbitrary string (provided by the packager) for what they'd like to see > > as output for the version. > > > > So without --with-distro-version: > > > > $> sssd --version > > 1.7.0 > > > > With ./configure --with-distro-version="-3.fc15" > > $> sssd --version > > 1.7.0-3.fc15 > > What is the point of this? Hi, my name is rpm -qi sssd > > Not a *bad* feature per-se, but kind of strange for the default. I do > like the build in the --version output for when you are testing > scratch builds or cherrypicking fixes from git and testing things. >
Well, it's primarily targeted at non-RPM distributions that can't do a simple 'rpm -q'. It also comes in handy for producing scratch builds (so you can mark a build as unofficial, for example).
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