Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 16:32:29 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: CVSUP and 5.2.1 RELEASE Message-ID: <8787.1089815549@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 14 Jul 2004 08:27:29 MDT." <20040714.082729.127098598.imp@bsdimp.com>
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In message <20040714.082729.127098598.imp@bsdimp.com>, "M. Warner Losh" writes: >In message: <36509.1089791989@critter.freebsd.dk> > "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> writes: >: In message <20040713.235559.103735764.imp@bsdimp.com>, "M. Warner Losh" writes: >: >In message: <27296.1089757404@critter.freebsd.dk> >: > "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> writes: >: >: The correct solution is the add whatever it takes to make the world >: >: target fail if it is unsafe. >: > >: >I've thought about only allowing it to work if kern.osreldate == >: >__FreeBSD_version from src/sys/sys/param.h >: >: Right, that was what I was thinking about too, but it would require >: us to redefine when to bump __FreeBSD_version slightly. > >99.99% of the time, we bump the __FreeBSD_version often enough that >'world' will work when they are the same. It is a lot better than we >have today. Absolutely. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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