Re: [PATCH] read EXTRAVERSION from file

[Matt Mackall]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 05:14:05PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> The're an very interesting patch in the Debian tree still from the time
> where Herbert Xu mentioned it, it allows creating a file .extraversion
> in the toplevel kernel directory and the Makefile will set EXTRAVERSION
> to it's contents.  This has the nice advantage of keeping an
> extraversion pre-tree instead of having to patch the Makefile and
> getting rejects everytime you pull a new tree (or BK refuses to touch
> the Makefile).
> 
> The only thing I'm not fully comfortable is the .extraversion name, I
> think I'd prefer a user-visible name.
> 
> Any other comments on this one?

(catching up)

Consider this approach as a more flexible alternative:

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=oxymoron+patch+names&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=fa.jif8l5v.1b049jd%40ifi.uio.no&rnum=1

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