On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 12:32:48PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 01:16:14PM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > > Hi, > > > > has this been raised / considered before? To me at least it would be > > extremely useful if QEMU binaries built from a git working directory > > returned the output of "git describe" (+ possibly a hint about an > > unclean working directory), when invoked with "-version". > > > > Not volunteering for the implementation, and also not suggesting / > > requesting that others implement it (everyone is busy with real stuff, > > I'm sure); just asking if it's been considered. > > Currently configure supports a --pkgversion flag which is used by people > packaging QEMU in RPM/Debs to include their arbitrary custom version string. > This information is then reported by -version and the appropriate QMP > command. > > We could quite easily make configure default the pkgversion to the current > GIT hash if --pkgversion is not explicitly given.
Oh and the nice thing about this is that it is plumbed into libvirt, so whenever libvirt starts a guest, it will log the pkgversion associated with QEMU to /var/log/libvirt/qemu/$GUEST.log Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :|
