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Date:      Wed, 28 Sep 2011 21:13:05 +0000
From:      h h <aakuusta@gmail.com>
To:        Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com>
Cc:        Matt <sendtomatt@gmail.com>, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, Beech Rintoul <beech@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, "Hartmann, O." <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: ports/ and 10.0-CURRENT
Message-ID:  <86k48sbcbi.fsf@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAGH67wRvSmTVv6c5EjuqoWTbhDLbFvF9k1G2cHj-q5JZ6gKdeA@mail.gmail.com> (Garrett Cooper's message of "Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:00:11 -0700")
References:  <20110926230335.041fd9aa@lab.lovett.com> <4E8377F1.7020906@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <4E838127.5090601@FreeBSD.org> <201109281245.40015.beech@freebsd.org> <CAGH67wRvSmTVv6c5EjuqoWTbhDLbFvF9k1G2cHj-q5JZ6gKdeA@mail.gmail.com>

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Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com> writes:

>>
>> So if I change /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh to something like vers 9.9 I'm not
>> going to shoot myself in the foot if I try and update? I would really like to
>> avoid downgrading this box.I've altready been bitten once today and had to
>> build packages on my tindy and force install.
>
> Today no, but when someone in changes something in base or ports that
> checks for __FreeBSD_version, yes.

Since when `uname -r' (kern.osrelease) is dependent on __FreeBSD_version
(kern.osreldate)? From what I've seen kensmith@ changed them separately

  http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/225757



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