Subject: Re: Versioning of tree
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
       Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
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On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 18:22, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > Hi Linus !
> > 
> > After you tag a "release" tree in bk, could you bump the version number
> > right away, with eventually some junk in EXTRAVERSION like "-devel" ?
> > 
> > It's quite painful to have a module dir name clash between the "clean"
> > final tree and whatever dev stuff we are testing out of bk ... it's fine
> > once you go to -rc1, but in the meantime, it's really annoying.
> 
> echo "-bk" > localversion
> make
> 
> You can do it just as easily as anyone else :)

Of course I can, and of course I keep forgetting... :) And a bunch of ppl
are apparently having the same problem :) Not even counting a guy this
morning reporting me of "problems with 2.6.9" while he was actually using
the bk top of tree from yesterday night...

But well, it's up to Linus :) I just though it would be convenient ...

Ben.

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