Re: stable says master

[Bruce Steers <bsteers4@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 31 Jul 2025 at 11:50, Benoît Minisini <
benoit.minisini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Le 31/07/2025 à 12:40, Bruce Steers a écrit :
> >
> >     line 8704 of main/configure
> >
> >       if test "x${gb_detect_git}" != "x"; then
> >          gb_vcs_branch=`git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD 2> /dev/null`
> >          gb_vcs_hash=`git rev-parse --short HEAD 2> /dev/null`
> >        else
> >          gb_detect_svn=`which svn 2> /dev/null`
> >            if test "x${gb_detect_svn}" != "x"; then
> >              gb_vcs_hash=`svn info --show-item last-changed-revision
> >     2> /dev/null`
> >            fi
> >        fi
> >
> >
> >     the 1st git command "git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD 2> /dev/null"
> >     is getting the branch name.
> >
> >     not sure what to do about it though?
> >     can configure detect if it is a OBS compile happening?
> >     if it can then it will only be either master or stable so we can
> >     react to version ending in .99 or not
> >     This assumes variable $OpenSuseInstaller is 1 if OBS or 0 in any
> >     other circumstance.
> >
> >
> >       if test "x${gb_detect_git}" != "x"; then
> >          gb_vcs_branch=`git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD 2> /dev/null`
> >          gb_vcs_hash=`git rev-parse --short HEAD 2> /dev/null`
> >          [ ${gb_vcs_version##*.} != "99" -a $OpenSuseInstaller -eq 1 ]
> >     && gb_vcs_branch="stable" # here change to stable is revision is
> >     not .99 and is OBS compilation.
> >        else
> >          gb_detect_svn=`which svn 2> /dev/null`
> >            if test "x${gb_detect_svn}" != "x"; then
> >              gb_vcs_hash=`svn info --show-item last-changed-revision
> >     2> /dev/null`
> >            fi
> >        fi
> >
> >
> >     Respects
> >     BruceS
> >
> >
> > It's a workaround i admit.
> > Very odd how git rev-parse is returning the correct commit hash but
> > wrong branch name. :-\
> > Respects
> > BruceS
> >
>
> Where does the '$OpenSuseInstaller' variable come from?
>
> By the way, note that the file to modify is actually 'configure.ac',
> which is the template 'configure' is generated from.
>
> --
> Benoît Minisini


Like i said i do not know if configure can detect if it's an obs build or
not?  (maybe )
If it is possible then we would set OpenSuseInstaller ourselves.
maybe we can process results of uname -a?

PS. i find no mention in configure.ac of git, perhaps it has been added to
configure script manually?

Respects
BruceS