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From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
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Subject: Re: bogus release version string
To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1995 05:18:41 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: asami@cs.berkeley.edu, bde@zeta.org.au, bugs@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199506201052.UAA06090@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Jun 20, 95 08:52:28 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.
> 
> >I agree.  Is there some way to let cvs generate an $Id$-like string
> >that has the checkout time, not the checkin time?  Then we can put it
> >in one of the header files and pull it into the kernel, and this will
> >give us a reasonable approximation assuming the whole source is
> >checked out at once (certainly true for sup from freefall or ctm).
> 
> 	`cvs co ...; date >some-header.h' :-)
> 
> I'd prefer for `cvs commit' to print the date step commit the changed
> header (not recursively, and without doubly the number of commits).

cvs co occured once for /usr/src on freefall since the 2.0 tree, it has
never been checked out again.

some-header.h is not how the version string gets built, it is needed
by /sys/conf/newvers.sh.

This would not handle the 3 way branch we now have in cvs.

We need to think this throught carefully and come up with somethings
that works well, but does not require excessive version reving of a
commited file.


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