Change the automatic local version to have the form -nnnnn-gSHA1SUMID, where 'nnnnn' is the number of commits since the last tag (i.e., 2.6.21-rc7). This makes it much more likely that the package names created for the kernel will look "newer" to a package manager.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- scripts/setlocalversion | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/setlocalversion b/scripts/setlocalversion index 82e4993..20711f5 100644 --- a/scripts/setlocalversion +++ b/scripts/setlocalversion @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ cd "${1:-.}" || usage if head=`git rev-parse --verify HEAD 2>/dev/null`; then # Do we have an untagged version? if git name-rev --tags HEAD | grep -E '^HEAD[[:space:]]+(.*~[0-9]*|undefined)$' > /dev/null; then - printf '%s%s' -g `echo "$head" | cut -c1-8` + git-describe | awk -F- '{printf("-%05d-%s", $(NF-1),$(NF))}' fi # Are there uncommitted changes? -- 1.5.3.4.499.g1104e-dirty - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/