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Date:      Mon, 27 Nov 2000 15:32:10 +0200 (IST)
From:      Roman Shterenzon <roman@harmonic.co.il>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        Stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: FBSD src/version info. 
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.10.10011271448580.5707-100000@shark.harmonic.co.il>
In-Reply-To: <200011202024.NAA26918@harmony.village.org>

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On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Warner Losh wrote:

> In message <3A19877F.2B5D18BF@gci.net> Jason Neumann writes:
> : I am wondering where I can look at /usr/src and find out what version of
> : the src I have (4.1.1-STABLE 4.2-BETA, 4.2-RELEASE) etc.
> 
> Assuming that it was all checked out at the same time, which you
> cannot easily devine, you can look at /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh
> 
I've got an idea; why no have a date tag in the version variable, which
will be changed every week.
This way uname -a will show tag like in snapshots and it'll be easier to
track bugs.
Comments?

--Roman Shterenzon, UNIX System Administrator and Consultant
[ Xpert UNIX Systems Ltd., Herzlia, Israel. Tel: +972-9-9522361 ]



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