Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 03:04:55 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Henri Hennebert <hlh@restart.be> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changing release version on source Message-ID: <20060309080455.GA60577@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20060309085658.o6d44acukg4ksso8@webmail.restart.be> References: <440F393C.9030302@rogers.com> <7.0.1.0.2.20060308120809.03286448@antimatter.net> <440F3DAC.4030402@rogers.com> <20060309085658.o6d44acukg4ksso8@webmail.restart.be>
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--CE+1k2dSO48ffgeK Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 08:56:58AM +0100, Henri Hennebert wrote: > Quoting Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com>: >=20 > >Glenn Dawson wrote: > >>At 12:06 PM 3/8/2006, you wrote: > >>>Does anyone know how to change the release version of the source =20 > >>>code? I have some brain dead software (Plesk) that insists on =20 > >>>FreeBSD 5.3, while it will work just fine on 5.5 and even 6. I am =20 > >>>wondering i can change the version of RELENG_5 code so that this =20 > >>>software will think its 5.3-R and let me install. I have tried =20 > >>>changing the variable in /usr/src/release/Makefile, but that seems =20 > >>> to have no effect. > >> > >>Take a look at sys/conf/newvers.sh > > > >Excellent, thanks! I'm presuming i have to do a full build/install > >world for this to take effect. Do you think that anything may break > >because of this manual change, even if i used RELENG_6 code? I will not > >be installing any ports. >=20 > I would prefer to wrap /usr/bin/uname with a temporary custom version =20 > returning > the disired values. It already supports this, see the manpage. The software may not be using uname(1) to determine kernel version though. Kris --CE+1k2dSO48ffgeK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFED+GnWry0BWjoQKURApXkAJ9w8CmMlymlGdPHtydRPKYHgHDmPQCg+pit Fep53aa/rabwF0XI2qdJSSQ= =ZdlN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --CE+1k2dSO48ffgeK--
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