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Re: [Qemu-devel] including the "git describe" output in the QEMU binarie
From: |
Daniel P. Berrange |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] including the "git describe" output in the QEMU binaries? |
Date: |
Tue, 31 May 2016 12:32:48 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.6.0 (2016-04-01) |
On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 01:16:14PM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> Hi,
>
> has this been raised / considered before? To me at least it would be
> extremely useful if QEMU binaries built from a git working directory
> returned the output of "git describe" (+ possibly a hint about an
> unclean working directory), when invoked with "-version".
>
> Not volunteering for the implementation, and also not suggesting /
> requesting that others implement it (everyone is busy with real stuff,
> I'm sure); just asking if it's been considered.
Currently configure supports a --pkgversion flag which is used by people
packaging QEMU in RPM/Debs to include their arbitrary custom version string.
This information is then reported by -version and the appropriate QMP
command.
We could quite easily make configure default the pkgversion to the current
GIT hash if --pkgversion is not explicitly given.
Regards,
Daniel
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