[ovirt-devel] VDSM fails 'autogen.sh' when shallow cloning - is that expected?

[Sandro Bonazzola]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 8:37 PM, Yaniv Kaul <ykaul at redhat.com> wrote:

> Probably fails because of:
> git describe
> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything.
>

Yes. I think autogen.sh and configure.ac shouldn't rely on git for package
versioning.
The automation/build-artifacs.sh script can take care of adding suffixes to
rpm release if needed at build time.
Version should be statically defined within configure.ac.



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> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 9:32 PM, Yaniv Kaul <ykaul at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> Cloning VDSM with the following command:
>> git clone -b master --depth 1 git://gerrit.ovirt.org/vdsm
>>
>> Which works, but then I can't run ./autogen.sh succesfully:
>> mini at ykaul-mini:/tmp/github/vdsmshallow$ ./autogen.sh  |less
>> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything.
>> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything.
>> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything.
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>> I am going to run ./configure with no arguments - if you wish
>> to pass any to it, please specify them on the ./autogen.sh command line.
>> configure: error: package version not defined
>>
>> As the difference is 1:10 in data size and I only wish to work on the
>> tip, this could be very useful to me.
>> Any ideas?
>>
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