[mythtv-users] Version Numbers, was: Program guide freezes ...
Mike Perkins
mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk
Sat Apr 19 21:57:50 UTC 2008
Michael T. Dean wrote:
>
> One of the main benefits of the --version output is its inclusion of the
> SVN revision number. Unfortunately, most packagers tend to build in an
> exported directory (without SVN info), so the MythTV version is
> unavailable. I'm pretty sure that Gentoo and Ubuntu packagers are
> running a script at build time that puts the SVN revision in so that
> it's available in the --version output even when built outside of the
> SVN working copy.
>
FYI the Mandriva packagers have started including the SVN# in the package name,
so you can see it right at selection time.
Mike Perkins
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