Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2003 16:30:05 -0500 (EST) From: "David A. Panariti" <davep.freebsd@meduseld.net> To: bmah@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.8R and $FreeBSD$ version tag expansion Message-ID: <20030405.163005.596525065.davep@meduseld.net> In-Reply-To: <20030405202330.GA84040@intruder.bmah.org> References: <3E8E216C.2060009@earthlink.net> <200304050103.h35131154355@flip.jhs.private> <20030405202330.GA84040@intruder.bmah.org>
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>>>>> "Bruce" == Bruce A Mah <bmah@freebsd.org> writes:
Bruce> If memory serves me right, 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. This
>> > isn't
>>
>> I read tags were reworked. Prob. you'r working from old sources, &
>> It'll rectify if you wait a day & then { refresh your CVS tree &
>> re-export src/ } or { if src/ from a .iso, check your MD5, & refetch
>> from local mirror if old }, then remake.
Bruce> I think I explained this in a prior posting to this list, but what
Bruce> happened was that the $FreeBSD$ CVS keywords didn't get expanded
Bruce> the first time we tried to build a release. mergemaster hates
Bruce> this, as the original poster discovered. For this and other
Bruce> reasons, we considered this a showstopper and rebuilt the release;
Bruce> when we did, we also needed to modify one file and slide its CVS
Bruce> tag.
Bruce> Users updating from sources (e.g. using cvsup or anon CVS) were
Bruce> probably not affected by this.
In confirmation, I updated from source on Apr 4 ~2pm EST and haven't seen any
$FreeBSD$ ids in /etc/...
>> PS I told re@ some hours back that there's no
ftp> //ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/4.8/CHECKSUM.MD5
>> they looked: there is CHECKSUM.MD5 on ftp-master, but it's not made it
>> over yet - the servers are very busy: waiting seems best solution :-)
Bruce> And in my reply to you, I mentioned that I had already put the
Bruce> contents of CHECKSUM.MD5 (for the i386 ISO images anyways) in the
Bruce> 4.8 errata file, which is on the Web site. :-)
Bruce> Cheers,
Bruce> Bruce.
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