From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 27 5:32:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from shark.harmonic.co.il (jupiter.harmonic.co.il [192.116.140.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AFF837B479 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 05:32:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (roman@localhost) by shark.harmonic.co.il (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA07459; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 15:32:10 +0200 Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 15:32:10 +0200 (IST) From: Roman Shterenzon To: Warner Losh Cc: Stable Subject: Re: FBSD src/version info. In-Reply-To: <200011202024.NAA26918@harmony.village.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <3A19877F.2B5D18BF@gci.net> Jason Neumann writes: > : I am wondering where I can look at /usr/src and find out what version of > : the src I have (4.1.1-STABLE 4.2-BETA, 4.2-RELEASE) etc. > > Assuming that it was all checked out at the same time, which you > cannot easily devine, you can look at /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh > I've got an idea; why no have a date tag in the version variable, which will be changed every week. This way uname -a will show tag like in snapshots and it'll be easier to track bugs. Comments? --Roman Shterenzon, UNIX System Administrator and Consultant [ Xpert UNIX Systems Ltd., Herzlia, Israel. Tel: +972-9-9522361 ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message