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

[Nir Soffer]

On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 11:27 AM, Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo at redhat.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 8:37 PM, Yaniv Kaul <ykaul at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> Probably fails because of:
>> git describe
>> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything.
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> 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.

Yaniv is using a git clone, so depending on git is fine in this case.

The tarball should not have any dependencies on git.

I think the issue is missing tags - this works:

git clone -b master --depth 1 git://gerrit.ovirt.org/vdsm
git tag v4.17.999
./autogen.sh --system

Nir

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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
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>>> 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.
>>> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything.
>>> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything.
>>> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything.
>>> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything.
>>> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything.
>>> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything.
>>> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything.
>>> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything.
>>> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything.
>>> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything.
>>> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything.
>>> 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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>>> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything.
>>> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything.
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>>> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything.
>>> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything.
>>> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything.
>>> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything.
>>> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything.
>>> 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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>>> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything.
>>> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything.
>>> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything.
>>> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything.
>>> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything.
>>> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything.
>>> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything.
>>> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything.
>>> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything.
>>> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything.
>>> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything.
>>> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything.
>>> 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
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>>> 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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