We are different: kernel changelog

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Tue Feb 10 15:03:02 UTC 2009


On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 13:33:58 -0500, Dave wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 01:27:10PM -0500, Christopher Aillon wrote:
>  > On 02/09/2009 01:12 PM, Dave Jones wrote:
>  > > On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 09:50:15AM -0500, Jarod Wilson wrote:
>  > >  
>  > >  > For rawhide, its a bit messy and most folks don't want to waste time 
>  > >  > from working on code to figure out how to determine the EVR of the hour 
>  > >  > (granted, yes, 'make verrel' and add one to the appropriate place is all 
>  > >  > it is...). A fair number of rawhide updates are done in a scripted 
>  > >  > fashion, guess we could add logic to the script to include an EVR.
>  > > 
>  > > If bumpspecfile.py had smarts to insert the version number, it'd be great.
>  > > As all the rebases, and some of the other changes are scripted already anyway.
>  > 
>  > It does.  Though not sure how it will handle the foo that happens with 
>  > kernel versioning.
> 
> It does the right thing by trying to evaluate it, and putting what it thinks
> the result is in the right place, but unfortunatly, it also bumps Release:
> (Even if Release: isn't a number, but a macro)
> which screws things up horribly, resulting in versions like 2.6.29-0.100.rc4.git1.1
> 

It does not evaluate it to bump it, though. It only does that when adding
the changelog entries -- and that would work fine if the script got an
option to "not bump". ;)

To bump release values, it tries to recognise several types of common
"Release" value definitions directly in hope that they adhere to the
guidelines.

With so many macros

| %define pkg_release %{fedora_build}%{?stable_rctag}%{?buildid}%{?dist}
| Release: %{pkg_release}

it would simply need to be *much* more mighty, before it could find the
right value to bump. %fedora_build even uses "awk".
In this case it decides to append ".1" to bump the final Release value
as a last resort.




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