[PATCH] Drop release date from kexec-tools version output

Simon Horman horms at verge.net.au
Tue Sep 1 19:22:41 PDT 2015


On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 09:24:12AM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> kexec --version reports like below:
> kexec-tools 2.0.7 released 05 February 2015
> 
> The date string is generated when one run bootstrap script, thus
> it is more like a build date instead of release date.
> Even for distribution like Fedora it will make more sense if it can
> report something like "kexec-tools 2.0.7-1 released 05 February 2015"
> 
> In case building from git tree, the date cause more confusion.
> So let's remove it from version string unless there is better idea
> to resolve the issue.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung at redhat.com>

Thanks, applied.



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