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Date:      Mon, 19 Jun 1995 13:51:13 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier Robert)
To:        bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Cc:        bugs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bogus release version string
Message-ID:  <199506191151.NAA18754@blaise.ibp.fr>
In-Reply-To: <199506191036.UAA30605@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Jun 19, 95 08:36:03 pm

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>     Release:        FreeBSD 2.0-BUILT-19950603 i386
> 
> 1. This provides very little information about the version - it might be
>    for plain 2.0 built late or for 2.2 built early.
> 
> 2. The current version isn't 2.0 or 2.1, it's pre-2.2.

I don't think putting the _build_ date in the version is a good idea.
I rather liked the 2.1-Development one. Build date is in the rest of
uname output so why duplicate it ? Especially when the build
date has nothing to do with the sources dates...

Better to put 2.2-Development there IMO.

-- 
Ollivier ROBERT     -=- The daemon is FREE! -=-     roberto@FreeBSD.ORG
FreeBSD keltia 2.0-BUILT-19950503 #3: Wed May  3 19:53:04 MET DST 1995



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