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Date:      Wed, 19 Nov 1997 14:23:01 -0800 (PST)
From:      Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>
To:        Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
Cc:        Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@dataplex.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Version Resolution?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971119141950.3249B-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199711192205.PAA06912@mt.sri.com>

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On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Nate Williams wrote:

> [ Versioning the development kernels ]
> > 

> > 2.2.5-STABLE-971118
> 
> Where does the date come from?  If it's generated on your box, then it's
> of little use since it doesn't say which source tree it was built from,
> which vary wildly depending on where your sources came from.

It *should* come with the sources, as I said, so that the date is valid
no matter when the "make world" is done or when the kernel is built.
This seems to be the hard part.

In this specific case, of course, I have just added it to newvers.sh
myself.

Annelise

 




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