Re: [PATCH] Add --with-branding-prefix and QEMU_BRANDING_PREFIX

[Peter Maydell]

On Mon, 14 Feb 2022 at 13:06, Liviu Ionescu <ilg@livius.net> wrote:
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> > On 14 Feb 2022, at 14:28, Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
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> > In a .git checkout, pkgversion defaults to "git describe --match 'v*' 
> > --dirty"
> > See scripts/qemu-version.sh
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> I see. I would say that this is a different use case.

It's just a handy default for git checkouts. The primary use case
of pkgversion is exactly "this is a downstream packaging of QEMU
that wants to indicate that in the version string".

-- PMM