Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] flashrom: Make packagers happy

[Peter Stuge]

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> > > > > > @echo -n $(SVNVERSION) >flashrom-$(VERSION)/.svnversion
> > > > >
> > > > > That's pretty ugly.
> > > >
> > > > It's the only way I saw to preserve the svn revision in the
> > > > tarball
> >
> > We discussed this for the 0.9.0 release and you did the commits.
>
> Right. That way works fine for releases, but not for snapshots
> which are shipped by quite a lot of distributions (Debian, Gentoo,
> ...)

The issue is that we do not create the snapshot tarballs. We should,
and part of that process would be to replace SVNDEF in Makefile.

I didn't quite understand what patch you propose though. :\

//Peter