From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Oct 2 16:35:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA01514 for stable-outgoing; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 16:35:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA01495 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 16:34:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony [10.0.0.6] by rover.village.org with esmtp (Exim 1.71 #1) id 0xGulg-0000M4-00; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 17:34:52 -0600 Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.8.7/8.8.3) with ESMTP id RAA06331; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 17:35:52 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199710022335.RAA06331@harmony.village.org> To: chad@dcfinc.com Subject: Re: CVSUP vs. SNAPS Cc: dg@root.com, rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 02 Oct 1997 16:31:50 PDT." <199710022331.QAA29397@freebie.dcfinc.com> References: <199710022331.QAA29397@freebie.dcfinc.com> Date: Thu, 02 Oct 1997 17:35:52 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <199710022331.QAA29397@freebie.dcfinc.com> "Chad R. Larson" writes: : In other words, say I get my new, hot 2.2.5-RELEASE CD-ROMs from Walnut : Creek via my subscription. I build a brand new box and load it from the : CD. Then I CVSup against 2.2-STABLE to pick up any last minute bug : fixes. What should the release identifier be now? Whatever it is, it : should be different than before the CVSup. And it should be something : that can be easily determined from within a script, for autoconfigures : and the like. Unless I'm missing something, that's what I'm proposing. uname -r should return 2.2.5-STABLE in this scenario. This is a good compromise between being too precise (heisenberg would have something to say about the CVS tree, if Terry doesn't beat him to it) and too vauge (the current status quo). Warner