[Buildroot] [PATCH] package/tvheadend: bump version to v4.1-2345 and fix version reporting

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Mon Nov 28 21:43:26 UTC 2016


Hello,

On Mon, 28 Nov 2016 22:24:20 +0100, Damjan Marion wrote:

> > Because we're using a full hash in every other package fetched from Git
> > in Buildroot, and we like consistency :)  
> 
> Unfortunately that was only meaningful way (I’m aware of) to provide some
> human-readable version information out from their repo.

Well, the full hash is by far the most precise and exact information.
Anyone having the Git repository can do "git checkout <hash>" and get
straight to the exact same commit.

> I don't see how is this improvement compared to “0.0.0~unknown”. I really doubt
> that it is worth time to submit that as a patch….

Well, 0.0.0~unknown doesn't say anything about the version. The full
hash says it all.

> What about something like:
> 
> TVHEADEND_VERSION = 50a370707aedf5c127e92bb517c378aa8ac04657
> TVHEADEND_PRETTY_VERSION = v4.1-2345-g50a3707  

Which have to be maintained separately :/

Thomas
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