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Subject: Re: HEADS UP: ports/ and 10.0-CURRENT
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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