Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 01:05:37 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Cc: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Seat-belt for source upgrades from stable to current Message-ID: <p05200f37ba5e6f5c0313@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20030130055521.GA47408@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <20030129191822.GO78848@starjuice.net> <p05200f31ba5e4c0bbc26@[128.113.24.47]> <20030130040542.GA46905@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <p05200f33ba5e581a8f86@[128.113.24.47]> <20030130045957.GA47151@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <p05200f36ba5e6b390ae9@[128.113.24.47]> <20030130055521.GA47408@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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At 9:55 PM -0800 1/29/03, Steve Kargl wrote: > >I don't run 4.x, so I do know. ;-) > >I suspect on a 4.x system, you'll get "4.x-AAAA" >where AAAA is either FreeBSD or STABLE. To distinguish >between 4.x and 5.x, all we need the first character. So, uname -r shows 4.7-FreeBSD for the security branch? If someone intends to be running the security branch, isn't it just as much of an error if they mistakenly install the 4-stable branch when they didn't want that? I think we have to check more than the first character. Note that I'm also thinking about cases were people are doing buildworlds on one machine, and then NFS-exporting that to do installworlds on other machines. I don't do that, but we might as well try to help as many people as possible with a change like this. I'm not saying that I know what that *is*, just that I'm trying to toss out a variety of ideas... :-) -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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