On Friday 23 January 2009 09:35:54 Pádraig Brady wrote: > What distribution are you using (I'm guessing Fedora 10). > Distributions that patch coreutils really should > modify the version string accordingly.
if coreutils wants distros to do that, it should really facilitate things. the way gcc does it now with gcc-4.3+ is a pretty good standard: ./configure ... --with-pkgversion="some vendor/distro string" ... i would certainly start using that in Gentoo -mike
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