Date: Tue, 01 Jul 1997 09:33:17 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: David Dawes <dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Determining FreeBSD versions Message-ID: <E0wj4vd-0006AC-00@rover.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 01 Jul 1997 19:03:53 %2B1000." <19970701190353.50830@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> References: <19970701190353.50830@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au>
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In message <19970701190353.50830@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> David Dawes writes: : branch, and as a consequence, 'uname -r' now reports "2.1-STABLE" rather Hmmm. Why not report 2.1.x-STABLE? Where x is incremented whenever a release happens. Then people know that things are newer than 2.1.x or 2.2.x or whatever. I'm not completely sure that parsing osversion.h (or is that osreldate.h) is the right answer here. Warner
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