Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 12:35:44 -0700 From: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com> To: Jonathan Chen <jon@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RELENG_4_3 calls itself -RELEASE? Message-ID: <20010804123544.C16994@freeway.dcfinc.com> In-Reply-To: <20010804094732.A47919@enterprise.spock.org>; from jon@FreeBSD.ORG on Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 09:47:32AM -0400 References: <01080300314100.00395@spatula.home> <20010804094732.A47919@enterprise.spock.org>
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On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 09:47:32AM -0400, Jonathan Chen wrote: > 1) Have the cvs scripts add the latest commit date/time to a version.h > everytime a commit occurs in a branch. Display/use it accordingly. I suggested that a couple of years ago. I thought "newvers.sh" should get updated by any CVS commit. It was met with something between indifference and hostility. The most valid (IMHO) objection is that people were regularly building the kernel without building world (or vice versa), something that I believe happens less often now with the new build tools. Then, unless you had a version.h for every kernel module and perhaps even every userland program, you still didn't know exactly what you had. Although you'd still be ahead of todays "I'm running a system supped about dinnertime yesterday" kind of identifications. -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.com DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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