Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 13:13:48 -0700 From: Michael Butler <Michael.Butler@exodus.net> To: "'freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Releases Message-ID: <B75C21065DDDD411A4C000508BB1E624300DE7@SCL4MLBX04>
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<snipped a tad> > -----Original Message----- > From: Oliver Fromme [mailto:olli@secnetix.de] > Sent: Wednesday, 11 April 2001 15:49 > To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Releases > > > I would also vote for ``uname -r'' saying ``4-STABLE'' and > > > appending the date (similar to the snapshot naming), like > > > ``4-STABLE-20010509''. This is much more useful than > > > ``4.3-STABLE'', IMO. > That would be rather difficult. > Storing the date (without time of day) in that string would > require some cron script somewhere (probably on the master > CVS server) that updates the newvers.sh file daily. This > might sound like a gross hack, but so far I haven't seen a > better idea. Perhaps we could add something to either: i) snoop through the cvsup tags on the client to identify the most recently modified file and use it's datestamp as the '-stable-yymmdd' seed or ii) modify cvsup client to record most recently modified file in a more convenient place from which 'make buildworld' can retrieve the same, Michael Butler Managed Security Services Exodus Communications US Cell: +1-408-896-6689 Australian Cell: +61-413-571-819 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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