Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 12:45:58 -0800 From: Glenn Dawson <glenn@antimatter.net> To: Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changing release version on source Message-ID: <7.0.1.0.2.20060308124418.04fffdb8@antimatter.net> In-Reply-To: <440F3DAC.4030402@rogers.com> References: <440F393C.9030302@rogers.com> <7.0.1.0.2.20060308120809.03286448@antimatter.net> <440F3DAC.4030402@rogers.com>
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At 12:25 PM 3/8/2006, Mike Jakubik wrote: >Glenn Dawson wrote: >>At 12:06 PM 3/8/2006, you wrote: >>>Does anyone know how to change the release version of the source >>>code? I have some brain dead software (Plesk) that insists on >>>FreeBSD 5.3, while it will work just fine on 5.5 and even 6. I am >>>wondering i can change the version of RELENG_5 code so that this >>>software will think its 5.3-R and let me install. I have tried >>>changing the variable in /usr/src/release/Makefile, but that seems >>>to have no effect. >> >>Take a look at sys/conf/newvers.sh > >Excellent, thanks! I'm presuming i have to do a full build/install >world for this to take effect. Do you think that anything may break >because of this manual change, even if i used RELENG_6 code? I will >not be installing any ports. If the software you're using gets the version in the same manner as uname, then all you should need is a new kernel. -Glenn >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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