Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 03:13:58 -0800 (PST) From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) To: perhaps@yes.no Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, imp@village.org, jdp@polstra.com, mark@quickweb.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CVSUP vs. SNAPS Message-ID: <199710271113.DAA02011@bubble.didi.com> In-Reply-To: <199710251652.SAA10816@bitbox.follo.net> (message from Eivind Eklund on Sat, 25 Oct 1997 18:52:55 %2B0200 (MET DST))
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* (2) Make uname info of what is now 2.2-STABLE usable to determine if * features of a certain release is available. This is not nearly enough for moving targets like -stable or -current. What we need is something much more fine-grained if we want uname to return useful information. One thing we can do is to include __FreeBSD_version somewhere in there. (It is already available as "sysctl kern.osreldate", and has been used by many ports for this purpose.) However, looking at -current this value doesn't appear to have been bumped nearly often enough. I've been changing it in 2.2-stable as often as I notice something going in, but it's quite possible I have missed some stuff. Unless the 2.2 -> 2.2.5 change is accompanied by something else (like the one Nate mentioned) that makes the string actually useful, I am against it as it only moved the problem and adds a false sense of accuracy. Satoshi
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