Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 20:05:42 -0800 From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Seat-belt for source upgrades from stable to current Message-ID: <20030130040542.GA46905@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <p05200f31ba5e4c0bbc26@[128.113.24.47]> References: <20030129191822.GO78848@starjuice.net> <p05200f31ba5e4c0bbc26@[128.113.24.47]>
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On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 10:35:40PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 9:18 PM +0200 1/29/03, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > >Can anyone think of a good way to implement an installworld / > >installkernel seat-belt for source upgrades from stable to current? > > > >What I'm looking for is a way for installworld and installkernel > >in the current source to look for some signature in the target > >filesystem that suggests that a stable world is about to be > >upgraded to current. > > How about requiring the user to touch some file in / or /boot which > indicates the branch-tag that's acceptable for installworlds? Then > you just need to propagate the tag from the 'cvs co' stage to some > file under /usr/src (such as /usr/src/CVS/Tag ). > > So, maybe compare /usr/src/CVS/Tag to /boot/BRANCH_TAG, where the > second file has to be typed in by the user, by hand. Eh, maybe > /boot isn't the right place for it. Well, maybe /.branch_tag > I don't have a /usr/src/CVS directory. I suspect most people don't pulldown the cvs repository. uname(1) works on both 4.7 and 5.0. This seems like a trivial problem to fix. -- Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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