[SeaBIOS] [PATCH 1/2] docs: Document 'make EXTRAVERSION=xyz'

[Kevin O'Connor]

On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 11:22:01AM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>   Hi,
> 
> > In the context of an example, however, the ${RPM_PACKAGE_RELEASE}
> > seems a little more descriptive.  That is, someone not an expert at
> > RPM should get the gist of it, and an expert at RPM should know enough
> > to use the preferred syntax anyway.
> 
> Makes sense.
> 
> > BTW, does %release/$RPM_PACKAGE_RELEASE provide the full "-1.fc22"
> > suffix?  That's what I'd like to see in the extra version.
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > Also, it occurred to me that we should also document tarball.sh - I'm
> > thinking adding something like:
> > 
> > 
> > If one is building a binary in a build environment that does not have
> > access to the git tool or does not have the full SeaBIOS git repo
> > available, then please use an official SeaBIOS tar file as source. If
> > building from a snapshot (where there is no official SeaBIOS tar) then
> > one should generate a snapshot tar file on a machine that does support
> > git using the scripts/tarball.sh tool. For example:
> > 
> > `scripts/tarball.sh`
> > 
> > The tarball.sh script encodes version information in the resulting tar
> > file which the build can extract and include in the final binary. The
> > above EXTRAVERSION field should still be set when building from a tar.
> 
> Looks good to me.

Thanks - I committed this (updated) series.

-Kevin