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On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 13:43:03 +1000
Da Rock <freebsd-questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au> wrote:

> Interesting. My only observation was that sysctl is supposed to be the 
> 'system' database where all queries relate to. It is supposed to display 
> everything about the system; therefore any of these data bits should be 
> fixed here first. Anything else would be a 'feature' :)

	That would be nice - one way to achieve that would be to add a
writable oid for patch level and not bump newvers.sh for patches.

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Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>