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Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 00:47:13 -0500
To: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
Subject: Re: Seat-belt for source upgrades from stable to current
Cc: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
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At 8:59 PM -0800 1/29/03, Steve Kargl wrote:
>
>You don't need a special file to indicate what version of
>FreeBSD you have.  uname -r tells you.
>

Actually, one thing I don't know is how this would work when it
comes to RELENG_4 vs RELENG_4_0 (since I don't run RELENG_4_0).
What does uname show for the security branches?  Just wondering.
The uname idea is fine with me, if someone wants to implement it
that way.

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