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Date:      Fri, 3 Oct 1997 09:21:54 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Hetzels@aol.com
To:        chad@dcfinc.com
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: CVSUP vs. SNAPS
Message-ID:  <971003092057_519245415@emout04.mail.aol.com>

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In a message dated 97-10-02 20:37:36 EDT, chad@freebie.dcfinc.com writes:
>  
>  > I've got several systems around here that are nearly
>  > impossible to determine what rev is on them because they all say
>  > 2.2-STABLE, even though some of them are from the 2.2.0 time frame,
>  > and others are 2 hours old.  If I can't tell the difference, then
>  > autoconfig scripts that use uname can't either.
>  
>  Ah, but that's a different problem (and one I raised a couple of weeks
ago).
>  
>  There should be some easy way (perhaps through "uname") to know where
>  along the STABLE continuum a particular system resides.
>  

I've come up with a fix for this problem that uses the CTM number to indicate
the systems current status.  See my message "CTM patch level added to
newvers.sh" for the patch.

Scot W. Hetzel



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