From owner-freebsd-questions  Fri Apr 11 11:46:59 1997
Return-Path: <owner-questions>
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA11257
          for questions-outgoing; Fri, 11 Apr 1997 11:46:59 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from dutton4.it.siu.edu (dutton4.it.siu.edu [131.230.2.151])
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA11239
          for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Fri, 11 Apr 1997 11:46:56 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from localhost (jimd@localhost)
	by dutton4.it.siu.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA27965;
	Fri, 11 Apr 1997 13:50:17 -0500 (CDT)
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 13:50:15 -0500 (CDT)
From: Jim Dutton <jimd@dutton4.it.siu.edu>
To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Newer versions of bsd...mk files anywhere?
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970411113404.1099Q-100000@localhost>
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970411134439.27950A-100000@dutton4.it.siu.edu>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk

Hmmm - the bsd.subdir.mk has a date of 2/1/91 in its internal comments, as
does bsd.port.subdir.mk.

The newer versions of the same files have an additional line with a 1997
date. How "stale" is stale??


On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Doug White wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Apr 1997, Jim Dutton wrote:
> 
> > Thanks for the pointer. I am curious, now that I have found, it - why are
> > the bsd...mk files in the OS distributions so far out of date?
> 
> They are the date at when the system was released.  The people who
> maintain them may just forget to commit them back to the other branches,
> so they get stale.