[PATCH] example/VFS ....confiure.in...

[Alexander Bokovoy]

On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 11:35:12AM +0200, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:
> >> Jerry, can you make sure that the VERSION string of samba matches this
> >> parsing scheme...
> >>
> >> in the SAMBA_3_0 and SAMBA_2_2 branches we should have "cvs" as version
> >> suffix
> >> (e.g. "3.0.0beta2cvs" or "3.0.0pre3cvs" or "3.0.0rc2")
> >>
> >> and the SAMBA_3_0_RELEASE and SAMBA_2_2_RELEASE branches should have the
> >> official versions.
> >> ("3.0.0beta2" or "3.0.0rc1" or "3.0.0")
> >I would better not make any attempt to count on particular string in
> >VERSION as we encourage vendors to change this string to their own if they
> >apply specific patches (regular behaviour). That means, if your logic is
> >based on content of VERSION string, it will likely fail.
> 
> but it should still be something like "3.0.0beta1-SuSE" ...
Not exactly. It might be, for example, "3.0/ALT" as we do in our ALT Linux
packages because we have continuous Samba 3.0 builds without separation on
beta/alpha/cvs snapshot for more than 1.5 year now. Actual source code
versioning is mentioned in the package itself.

> and parsing this string is the best thing we can do for dealing with samba 
> 2.2.* and 3.0aplha* and 3.0.0beta1
Why you need to parse that at all?

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