On 24/08/2015:05:10:05 PM, Dave Young wrote: > kexec --version reports like below: > kexec-tools 2.0.7 released 05 February 2015 > > The date string is generated when one run bootstrap script, thus > it is more like a build date instead of release date. > Even for distribution like Fedora it will make more sense if it can > report something like "kexec-tools 2.0.7-1 released 05 February 2015" > > In case building from git tree, the date cause more confusion. > So let's remove it from version string unless there is better idea > to resolve the issue. May be we can take same approach what kernel build takes. Kernel build does not add build/release string. It just add date and time like "Mon Aug 10 23:38:23 UTC 2015". $ uname -a Linux dhcppc13 4.1.5-200.fc22.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Aug 10 23:38:23 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux ~Pratyush
