Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 23:21:39 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Cc: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Seat-belt for source upgrades from stable to current Message-ID: <p05200f33ba5e581a8f86@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20030130040542.GA46905@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <20030129191822.GO78848@starjuice.net> <p05200f31ba5e4c0bbc26@[128.113.24.47]> <20030130040542.GA46905@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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At 8:05 PM -0800 1/29/03, Steve Kargl wrote: >On Wed, Jan 29, 2003, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > 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. Well, then, just have the branch-tag show up in some file that is somewhere else in the /usr/src tree. It ain't hard to do. This new check would not go into effect until you updated your /usr/src tree, and the same update could bring in a /usr/src/BRANCH file. >uname(1) works on both 4.7 and 5.0. This seems >like a trivial problem to fix. If you use something fixed like uname, then what does one do once they *DO* want to switch from one branch to another one? -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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