According to Eric Blake on 2/24/2010 9:54 AM: > Libvirt came up with the compelling reason - Fedora Core 11 only has > 1.6.2.5, and RPEL 5 is back at git 1.5.5. This should fix it, by > borrowing ideas from m4's bootstrap script.
And adding timestamps aids in tracking whether projects are using the latest bootstrap. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
From 108cfb803174abf17eb101e9999b9d1a642ce1ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:25:56 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] bootstrap, git-version-gen: use timestamp
Timestamps are useful, particularly for files copied into other
packages, to see how long since a file has forked.
* build-aux/git-version-gen (scriptversion): Force UTC.
* build-aux/bootstrap (scriptversion): New variable.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com>
---
ChangeLog | 4 ++++
build-aux/bootstrap | 10 ++++++++++
build-aux/git-version-gen | 5 +++--
3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 8aef62a..0b5ca46 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
2010-02-24 Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com>
+ bootstrap, git-version-gen: use timestamp
+ * build-aux/git-version-gen (scriptversion): Force UTC.
+ * build-aux/bootstrap (scriptversion): New variable.
+
bootstrap: allow older git
* build-aux/bootstrap (GNULIB_SRCDIR): Add fallback if git is
older than 1.6.4. Requested by the libvirt project.
diff --git a/build-aux/bootstrap b/build-aux/bootstrap
index 875e751..365a3d9 100755
--- a/build-aux/bootstrap
+++ b/build-aux/bootstrap
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
#! /bin/sh
+# Print a version string.
+scriptversion=2010-02-24.17; # UTC
# Bootstrap this package from checked-out sources.
@@ -841,3 +843,11 @@ fi
bootstrap_epilogue
echo "$0: done. Now you can run './configure'."
+
+# Local variables:
+# eval: (add-hook 'write-file-hooks 'time-stamp)
+# time-stamp-start: "scriptversion="
+# time-stamp-format: "%:y-%02m-%02d.%02H"
+# time-stamp-time-zone: "UTC"
+# time-stamp-end: "; # UTC"
+# End:
diff --git a/build-aux/git-version-gen b/build-aux/git-version-gen
index 5f2f1cc..16da2a8 100755
--- a/build-aux/git-version-gen
+++ b/build-aux/git-version-gen
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
#!/bin/sh
# Print a version string.
-scriptversion=2010-01-27.16
+scriptversion=2010-02-24.17; # UTC
# Copyright (C) 2007-2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
#
@@ -146,5 +146,6 @@ echo "$v" | tr -d '\012'
# eval: (add-hook 'write-file-hooks 'time-stamp)
# time-stamp-start: "scriptversion="
# time-stamp-format: "%:y-%02m-%02d.%02H"
-# time-stamp-end: "$"
+# time-stamp-time-zone: "UTC"
+# time-stamp-end: "; # UTC"
# End:
--
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