GNU bug report logs - #42212
Guix version rendered as 0.0-git in info manual

Previous Next

Full log

View this message in rfc822 format

From: Arun Isaac <arunisaac <at> systemreboot.net>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 42212 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#42212: Guix version rendered as 0.0-git in info manual
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2020 03:12:37 +0530

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

> The “0.0-git” string comes from (guix self).  As noted there, we can’t
> really afford to change the version string at each commit, or we’d have
> to rebuild the manual at each commit.
>
> We could perhaps choose a more meaningful version string, though, maybe
> by looking at the closest tag or something.

That sounds good, and `git describe` could provide us with the closest
tag. Unfortunately, (git) doesn't seem to be available during `guix
pull`. I'm trying to come up with workarounds. Do you have any ideas?

[signature.asc (application/pgp-signature, inline)]

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.