On 08/24/15 at 03:59pm, Pratyush Anand wrote: > 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 > Do you means drop "released" string only and keep the date? I'm also fine with it, at lease less confusion to me. Thanks Dave
