Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Polish the version strings containing the package version

[Thomas Huth]

On 15.02.2018 15:38, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 02/15/2018 05:06 AM, Thomas Huth wrote:
>> Since commit 67a1de0d195a there is no space anymore between the
>> version number and the parentheses when running configure with
>> --with-pkgversion=foo :
>>
>>   $ qemu-system-s390x --version
>>   QEMU emulator version 2.11.50(foo)
>>
>> But the space is included when building without that option
>> when building from a git checkout:
>>
>>   $ qemu-system-s390x --version
>>   QEMU emulator version 2.11.50 (v2.11.0-1494-gbec9c64-dirty)
>>
>> The same confusion exists with the "query-version" QMP command.
>> Let's fix this by introducing a proper QEMU_FULL_VERSION definition
>> that includes the space and parentheses, while the QEMU_PKGVERSION
>> should just cleanly contain the package version string itself.
>> Note that this also changes the behavior of the "query-version" QMP
>> command (the space and parentheses are not included there anymore),
>> but that's supposed to be OK since the strings there are not meant
>> to be parsed by other tools.
>>
>> Fixes: 67a1de0d195a6185c39b436159c9ffc7720bf979
>> Buglink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1673373
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <address@hidden>
>> ---
> 
> I like it!
> 
> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>

Ping!

Paolo, could you maybe take this through your misc tree?

 Thomas