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

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 19:48, Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
> 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?

I think that a few #defines in version.h is the right thing to to here.

Andrew Bartlett

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