From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 29 22: 5:49 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4C8337B401 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 22:05:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.2.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2052A43F3F for ; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 22:05:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id h0U65csR234374; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 01:05:38 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20030130055521.GA47408@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <20030129191822.GO78848@starjuice.net> <20030130040542.GA46905@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20030130045957.GA47151@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20030130055521.GA47408@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 01:05:37 -0500 To: Steve Kargl From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Seat-belt for source upgrades from stable to current Cc: Sheldon Hearn , current@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.3 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 9:55 PM -0800 1/29/03, Steve Kargl wrote: > >I don't run 4.x, so I do know. ;-) > >I suspect on a 4.x system, you'll get "4.x-AAAA" >where AAAA is either FreeBSD or STABLE. To distinguish >between 4.x and 5.x, all we need the first character. So, uname -r shows 4.7-FreeBSD for the security branch? If someone intends to be running the security branch, isn't it just as much of an error if they mistakenly install the 4-stable branch when they didn't want that? I think we have to check more than the first character. Note that I'm also thinking about cases were people are doing buildworlds on one machine, and then NFS-exporting that to do installworlds on other machines. I don't do that, but we might as well try to help as many people as possible with a change like this. I'm not saying that I know what that *is*, just that I'm trying to toss out a variety of ideas... :-) -- 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