[PATCH] distversion feature for snapshot dists

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Fri, 2012-06-22 at 12:14 +0200, Bjoern Baumbach wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Please find attached a set of patches extending our build system.
> 
> Aimed problem:
> If we create a snapshot tarball with make dist we loose the version
> information (e.g. git hash). So packages build from such a dist package
> have a version like 4.0.0beta3-UNKNOWN.
> 
> 
> With my patches "make dist" writes a .distversion file with version
> information and adds it to the dist tarball.
> The wafsamba/samba_version.py code is extended to use this information.
> 
> Such a .distversion looks like:
> GIT_COMMIT_ABBREV=9563c95
> SUFFIX=GIT-9563c95
> GIT_COMMIT_FULLREV=9563c95aaf59f3a70f4bd012a7e03a3b10349686
> COMMIT_TIME=1340350238
> COMMIT_DATE=Fri Jun 22 09:30:38 2012 +0200
> 
> I think this is very useful and I would like to use it in future.
> 
> Comments? :-)

I can see how this would be useful, if you are preparing tarballs of git
snapshots.  In terms of implementation, I'm wondering if we should just
edit the VERSION file, when it isn't an actual release?  (just an idea,
I'm not really fussed)

For the autoconf build, you also need to rework the mkversions.sh to
match, or find a way to just run the python code for both use cases.

Andrew Bartlett

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