Re: keyword expand Re: using cvswrappers

["George Georgalis" <george@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 08:36:45PM -0500, George Georgalis wrote:
>On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 04:58:19PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>>
>>:Seems KeywordExpand is what I was looking for
>>:that and /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh
>>:
>>:which is invoked from where exactly?
>>:
>>:// George
>>:-- 
>>:George Georgalis, systems architect, administrator Linux BSD IXOYE
>>
>>    newvers.sh is part of the kernel build process.  It is not a
>>    function of CVS or cvswrappers.
>>
>>    All I did was add the $Name$ tag to newvers.sh, which cvs expands
>>    when the file is checked out, so when the script is run it can 
>>    figure out which tag was used to build the kernel (a blank tag meaning
>>    that it was from the CVS HEAD branch).
>>
>>    This way people's dmesg will correctly show whether the kernel is
>>    from HEAD or the DragonFly_Stable tag or, when we do another release,
>>    the release tag.
>
>
>well, I'm trying to tag version info into files as they are checked in.
>
>In a (dfly makeworld today) test pository, I added to CVSROOT/config 
>
>LocalKeyword=DragonFly=CVSHeader
>KeywordExpand=iDragonFly,Name
>
>and commited it. Then I added and committed a file CVSROOT/test with a
>literal $DragonFly$, but it wasn't expanded as expected... something is
>missing. Should I be defining CVSHeader somewhere? or...


nope, that does it. I had misspelled "$DragonFly$"

Thanks!
// George

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