Re: LOCALVERSION_AUTO considered harmful

[Theodore Tso]

On Apr 11, 2010, at 10:56 PM, rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> So what do you suggest?  If the "magic" strings contain "-dirty ",
> then ignore that and the 2 preceding hyphen-separated fields?

I have a standard local patch that I've been carrying for I-don't-know-how-long which just nukes the "-dirty" suffix, which I needed because make-kpkg modifies some kernel build files, so the version string would always have 
-dirty.

It's not hard to fix...

-- Ted

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