From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Oct 6 08:21:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA04409 for stable-outgoing; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 08:21:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable) Received: from GndRsh.aac.dev.com (GndRsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA04389 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 08:21:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com) Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by GndRsh.aac.dev.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) id IAA00369; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 08:20:44 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199710061520.IAA00369@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: CVSUP vs. SNAPS In-Reply-To: <199710051036.DAA05559@bubble.didi.com> from Satoshi Asami at "Oct 5, 97 03:36:11 am" To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 08:20:44 -0700 (PDT) Cc: dg@root.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL25 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > * David, perhaps you should try and figure out just what OS I am running: > * Orbit:root {104}# uname -a > * FreeBSD Orbit.qcsn.com 2.2-STABLE FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE #2: Fri Sep 19 13:56:36 PDT 1997 root@Orbit.aac.dev.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/ORBIT i386 > * > * Now you tell me, is that before or after 2.2.2??? > > I don't know. All I know is that you built your kernel on 9/19. > > Why does it matter whether it's before or after 2.2.2? What I need > (if I were David trying to debug your system), what I need is exactly > when you cvsupped (and cvs updated) your stuff last. Whether you did > that before or after 2.2.2 is really too large of a glanurality to be > of any help. You are tracking a moving target for christsakes, the > uname can say "FreeBSD-STABLE" for all we care (except that will > be confusing because of 2.1 and 2.2). Of all people to make this mistake. Okay, I got this old box, I need to grab a port for it, but I need to know if I want the port from the 2.2, 2.2.1 or 2.2.2 cdrom. Yea, I updated the box a couple times, but it still should run any port from the correct cdrom, or for that matter from the archives on the ftp site. Get the picture??? > Besides, if I show you a uname that says "3.0-CURRENT Fri Jan 18 > 13:56:36 PST 1998", can you tell whether it's before or after 3.0R? Nope, not if Jordan insistes on continuing to equate a variable named REVISION to a management tool called cvs and it's branch tags :-( -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation, Inc. Reliable computers for FreeBSD