Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 00:32:43 -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: <p05200f34ba5e68375674@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20030130045957.GA47151@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <20030129191822.GO78848@starjuice.net> <p05200f31ba5e4c0bbc26@[128.113.24.47]> <20030130040542.GA46905@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <p05200f33ba5e581a8f86@[128.113.24.47]> <20030130045957.GA47151@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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At 8:59 PM -0800 1/29/03, Steve Kargl wrote:
>On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 11:21:39PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>> At 8:05 PM -0800 1/29/03, Steve Kargl wrote:
>>
>> >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?
>>
>
>Compare output from /usr/bin/uname -r to ${OBJDIR}/usr.bin/uname/uname -r.
>If the strings are the same, then install. If the strings are different
>or an error occurs either abort the install or wait for keyboard input
>to continue the installation.
>
>You don't need a special file to indicate what version of
>FreeBSD you have. uname -r tells you.
Indeed, I know what uname -r does.
I also know that it changes when freebsd goes from 4.6 to 4.7,
even though the user has not changed what branch (RELENG_4)
they intend to be pulling updates from when we decide to change
the name.
I understand what you're advocating, I just don't prefer it. On
the other hand, I agree that would also work better than what we
have now. I only want to offer some suggestions, and let someone
else (sheldon?) decide what they wanted to implement.
--
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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