[Gumstix-users] patch to put the buildroot subversion number into /etc/gumstix_version

[albertd <alb...@sy...>]

Craig:

Here is a patch to add a short file to /etc that contains the  buildroot 
subversion revision number, date, and build host of the image.

I realize that adding a whole file to the filesystem just to record ~6 
bytes of information is a bit expensive; but the value to me is rather 
high.  It means I can figure out what load I'm running with!

An alternative would be to amend /etc/issue with the same information, 
but I got lazy and did not work out the details of how that would work 
beyond an explicit, separate, copy of sources/target_skeleton/etc/issue 
and the same data dumping now done in my patch.

Which flavour do you like better?  In my experience a version number 
definitely helps when handling service requests :)

    Albert.