From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Nov 20 16:52:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA26015 for stable-outgoing; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 16:52:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable) Received: from awfulhak.demon.co.uk (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA25945 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 16:51:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@awfulhak.org) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.demon.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id EAA16474; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 04:26:33 GMT (envelope-from brian@gate.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199711200426.EAA16474@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Nate Williams cc: Brian Somers , Annelise Anderson , Richard Wackerbarth , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Version Resolution? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 19 Nov 1997 18:46:12 MST." <199711200146.SAA08213@mt.sri.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 04:26:32 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > The only way to get a reasonably useful date here would be to have an > > automatic cvs posting on freefall every day to (say) sys/codedate.h: > > Yep, you've got it. However, this fails for people who get stuff via > CVSup, which gets files directly out of the repository, and this file > doesn't live in the Repository. But it would live in the repository. We create an original, then put a cron job on freefall that does the "cvs co"/"cvs commit". The ``codedate'' is actually part of the code. > > Nate -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....