Re: Patch: 2.2.0pre1-ac2 released

Ben Gertzfield (che@debian.org)
29 Dec 1998 23:08:42 -0800


>>>>> "Alan" == Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:

Alan> ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/alan/2.2pre

Alan> It goes without saying Linus may well have picked some of
Alan> these up too. I'm doing the -ac2 patch so folks can test
Alan> these, find more and because I need it to be able to
Alan> usefully use 2.2.0pre1 on most of my machines.

Great!

Alan, you may wish to consider using the new EXTRAVERSION variable
Linus has put into the top-level Makefile in your patches to reflect
the -ac2 (or whatever you're on by the time this is sent ;) in the
version.

Right now, EXTRAVERSION in 2.2.0-pre1 is set to:

VERSION = 2
PATCHLEVEL = 2
SUBLEVEL = 0
EXTRAVERSION =-pre1

but this could easily become:

VERSION = 2
PATCHLEVEL = 2
SUBLEVEL = 0
EXTRAVERSION =-pre1-ac2

or whatever you need. What do you think? This would make my life
easier keeping track of what patches I've applied.. or is there a
better place that this kind of stuff is recorded into via the -ac
patches?

Ben

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