From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Oct 6 08:44:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA05838 for stable-outgoing; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 08:44:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable) Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA05800 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 08:43:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu) Received: from localhost (localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.8.7/8.6.12) with SMTP id IAA06087 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 08:41:10 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 5 Oct 1997 21:59:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson To: Ted Spradley cc: Richard Wackerbarth , Hetzels@aol.com, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fwd: CVSup release identity In-Reply-To: <199710051822.NAA02733@set.spradley.dyn.ml.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII ReSent-Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 08:40:50 -0700 (PDT) ReSent-From: Annelise Anderson ReSent-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org ReSent-Message-ID: Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 5 Oct 1997, Ted Spradley wrote: > > > >uname -r > > > > > >which will result in the message: > > > > > >FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE-AB > > > > > >or > > > > > >FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE (0360) > > > > I think that this is a very good idea. I would delete the "-STABLE" > > portion of the label. "FreeBSD 2.2 (0360)" conveys the same info, is shorter > > and eliminates some of the confusion. For the RELEASES, I would use > > "FreeBSD 2.2.0", "FreeBSD 2.2.5", etc. > > I like this. If it's got three digits (e.g. 2.2.5), it's a release. If it's > got two digits plus the extra part, it's taken from an on-going branch, and > the extra part indicates when it was taken. That should help clear up any > confusion between branches and releases. But releases are also taken from ongoing branches. In any case, uname -r on my machine now produces: 2.2-STABLE-971004-19:45 PDT which is explicit in indicating the date and time at which cvsup began downloading the sources. That seems more informative than a code that has to be translated into a date. Annelise