On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 7:31 PM, Florian Manschwetus <florianmanschwetus@xxxxxx> wrote: > Luis R. Rodriguez schrieb: > > > > On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Florian Manschwetus > > <florianmanschwetus@xxxxxx> wrote: > >> is it possible to get a version appendix on the tar.bz? > >> so it should be easy to get a working ebuild fpr this. > > > > The problem is there's two things to "version", compat-wireless itself > > and Linux. I keep both version already as part of the tarball. > > > > wireless@sipsolutions:~$ cat compat-wireless-2.6/compat-release > > 2.8-49-gfe0f268 > > > > wireless@sipsolutions:~$ cat compat-wireless-2.6/git-describe > > v2.6.25-rc5-2623-g7556b76 > > > > You can also just pull these from the directory that was used to > > create the tarball: > > > > http://linuxwireless.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6/compat-wireless-2.6/compat-release > > http://linuxwireless.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6/compat-wireless-2.6/git-describe > > > > Does this suffice? > > > Not really but it gives a version hint, could you create a symlink or so? > a url like that would be fine: > http://linuxwireless.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6/compat-wireless-2.8-49.tar.bz2 The problem is that does not reflect changes to Linux so there may be a lot of great code added and yet this wouldn't reflect it. And if we go with git-describe for Linux we could get updates on compat-wireless itself during no code changes on Linux. I could use date (date -I), that might work best but will it work for you? Luis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
