linux-kernel - Re: kbuild: Fix the breakage caused by "improve version string logic"

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Date:	Tue, 08 Jun 2010 13:19:41 +0300
From:	Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@...asas.com>
To:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
CC:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>,
	Dirk Hohndel <hohndel@...radead.org>,
	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kbuild: Fix the breakage caused by "improve version string logic"

On 06/08/2010 01:14 PM, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> On 06/08/2010 12:13 PM, David Rientjes wrote:
>> On Tue, 8 Jun 2010, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> The patch: 85a256d8e0116c8f5ad276730830f5d4d473344d
>>> 	Author: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
>>> 	Title: kbuild: improve version string logic
>>>
>>> Broke none Linus trees that supply their own version string and
>>> tag system via a presence of a localversion* file at the Kernel's
>>> root subdirectory.
>>>
>>> After This patch. The "+" (plus) is not added if a localversion*
>>> file is present or a CONFIG_LOCALVERSION is configured.
>>>
>>
>> The only reason the `+' is being appended to your version string is 
>> because your scm is reporting that there have been commits to the tree 
>> since the last release; for git, that means anything that isn't at a 
>> tagged commit.
>>
> 
> What is a tagged commit:
> 
> [my_tree] $ git branch
> *master
> [my_tree] $ git tag v2.6.35-rc2-my-tree

OK now I get it I need:
$ git tag -a v2.6.35-rc2-my-tree

I never used the -a before though no one complained. What else
am I missing?

Boaz

> [my_tree] $ cat localversion-my-tree
> -my-tree
> 
> I still get: DEPMOD 2.6.35-rc2-my-tree+
> 
> How to solve? please specify.
> 
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