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Re: [PATCH 2/2] Update Xen version to 4.21.0-rc1


  • To: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2025 16:34:51 +0200
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  • Cc: Xen-devel <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Oleksii Kurochko <oleksii.kurochko@xxxxxxxxx>, Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@xxxxxxxxxx>, Michal Orzel <michal.orzel@xxxxxxx>, Julien Grall <julien@xxxxxxx>, Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>, Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Delivery-date: Tue, 07 Oct 2025 14:34:53 +0000
  • List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xenproject.org>

On 07.10.2025 10:28, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> On 07/10/2025 7:54 am, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 06, 2025 at 09:08:40PM +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote:
>>> --- a/xen/Makefile
>>> +++ b/xen/Makefile
>>> @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ this-makefile := $(call lastword,$(MAKEFILE_LIST))
>>>  # All other places this is stored (eg. compile.h) should be autogenerated.
>>>  export XEN_VERSION       = 4
>>>  export XEN_SUBVERSION    = 21
>>> -export XEN_EXTRAVERSION ?= -unstable$(XEN_VENDORVERSION)
>>> +export XEN_EXTRAVERSION ?= .0-rc1$(XEN_VENDORVERSION)
>> In previous switches to start cutting RC's we didn't add the 1 to the
>> XEN_EXTRAVERSION, see 19730dbb3fd8078743d5196bd7fc32f3765557ad for
>> example.
> 
> Correct.  That was also buggy and complained about.
> 
>>   If we do add the rc number we need to remember to bump it
>> each time and RC is released.
> 
> Last time we had truly buggy early rc tarballs, the middle ones were
> bodged somewhat (incompletely, and not a straight git archive), and by
> RC5 we had a commit with the correct XEN_EXTRAVERSION to make the
> tarball correct.
> 
> See 4.20.0-rc5

Yet then the question still is whether it is perhaps the tarball making
which is what wants adjusting, to not use "$(MAKE) -C xen xenversion",
but rather go from, say, the tag in git.

Jan



 


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