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Date:      Sat, 05 Apr 2003 08:51:15 -0500
From:      "MikeM" <zlists@mgm51.com>
To:        "Julian Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com>, "David A. Gobeille" <dgobeille@earthlink.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 4.8R and $FreeBSD$ version tag expansion
Message-ID:  <200304050851150693.0055765B@sentry.24cl.com>
In-Reply-To: <200304050103.h35131154355@flip.jhs.private>
References:  <200304050103.h35131154355@flip.jhs.private>

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On 4/5/2003 at 3:03 AM Julian Stacey wrote:

|Reference:
|> From:		"David A. Gobeille" <dgobeille@earthlink.net> 
|> Date:		Fri, 04 Apr 2003 18:21:00 -0600 
|> Message-id:	<3E8E216C.2060009@earthlink.net> 
|
|"David A. Gobeille" wrote:
|> I noticed that there were quite a few files with version ids of 
|> '$FreeBSD$' when I ran mergemaster after an install of 4.8R.  ...
|
|I read tags were reworked.  ...
 =============

Initially the tags were not expanded properly.   When that problem was
fixed, the size of the programs increased enough (!) such that one of the
floppy disk images was greater than the size of your average floppy disk.

The disk and program layouts had to be adjusted and 4.8 re-built.









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