[PATCH] example/VFS ....confiure.in...
Stefan (metze) Metzmacher
metze at metzemix.de
Tue Jun 24 10:16:00 GMT 2003
At 20:04 24.06.2003 +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
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>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.
yep, but we have to fallback to parsing for older relases...
metze
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