Re: [Question] Restore previous "local tag" behaviour

[Masahiro Yamada]

On Tue, Mar 28, 2023 at 2:44 AM Tor Vic <torvic9@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> When I'm building my kernels, I used to tag my personal releases with a
> similar annotated tag commit as with vanilla kernel, just appending
> "-tv" or similar to it, i.e. "v6.3-rc4" becomes "v6.3-rc4-tv".

I do not understand what you want to achieve.



Let's say you wanted to release "v6.0-rc4-tv",
which consists of v6.0-rc4 with 331 extra commits.


$ git checkout  v6.0-rc5^
HEAD is now at 4ed9c1e971b1 Merge tag 'kbuild-fixes-v6.0-2' of
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild
$ git describe
v6.0-rc4-331-g4ed9c1e971b1
$ make kernelrelease
6.0.0-rc4-00331-g4ed9c1e971b1


Then, you released it as "v6.0-rc4-tv".

$ git tag -a v6.0-rc4-tv -m "Linux v6.0-rc4-tv"
$ make kernelrelease
6.0.0-rc4


Then, kernelrelease becomes clean '6.0.0-rc4'.
Is this what you want?

It is apparently wrong since there are
331 commits between v6.0-rc4 and v6.0-rc4-tv.

That is what 6ab7e1f95e96 _fixed_.


The behavior is now clearer and correct.

$ git describe
v6.3-rc4-174-g2bac7dc169af
$ git tag  -a v6.3-rc4-tv  -m "Linux v6.3-rc4-tv"
$ make kernelrelease
6.3.0-rc4-00174-g2bac7dc169af


If you wanted to make a "-tv" release,
you would want to change the version field in Makefile
before tagging.


 diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
 index da2586d4c728..8639036f5095 100644
 --- a/Makefile
 +++ b/Makefile
 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
  VERSION = 6
  PATCHLEVEL = 3
  SUBLEVEL = 0
 -EXTRAVERSION = -rc4
 +EXTRAVERSION = -rc4-tv
  NAME = Hurr durr I'ma ninja sloth

  # *DOCUMENTATION*



Then, kernelrelease shows it is a "-tv" release.

$ make kernelrelease
6.3.0-rc4-tv







> This has worked just fine so far, but...
>
> Since commit 6ab7e1f95e96f0c688ae132b0e9a16c0f206689d ("setlocalversion:
> use only the correct release tag for git-describe"), this is not taken
> into account anymore, it uses the "git describe" tag instead of using
> the actually tagged commit as "kernelrelease".
>
> Is there a way to restore the previous behaviour without having to
> revert this (and preceding) commits?
>
> I know that we can disable CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO=y and append
> directly to CONFIG_LOCALVERSION, but maybe someone knows how to use the
> "old" way of using tags...?
>
> In other words, when I have a local tag, I want "kernelrelease" to use
> just that tag, and when I don't tag anything, it should just use the
> standard "git describe" tag.


Again, I do not understand.

git tag is not stable information.

If you call it "a release",
you would want to work in the same way with/without git
even if most kernel developers are working in a git tree.


The mainline kernel, stable-kernel, linux-next are
released in https://kernel.org/
(and GitHub allows users to download a tarball of
a tagged commit.)


A released tarball (of course, there is no tag there),
produces the same kernelrelease as the git tree does.

You are requiring the kernelrelease be different
with/without the *-tv tag.
That is not what the release would look like.

The mainline kernel and stable kernel increment
the version field in Makefile.
linux-next has "localversion-next" at the top of the tree.






> For the moment I have just reverted the related commits as they don't
> serve any purpose for my needs.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tor Vic



-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada