Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 16:19:06 -0700 (MST) From: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@freebie.dcfinc.com> To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Cc: dg@root.com, rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CVSUP vs. SNAPS Message-ID: <199710022319.QAA29319@freebie.dcfinc.com> In-Reply-To: <199710021705.LAA02207@harmony.village.org> from Warner Losh at "Oct 2, 97 11:05:19 am"
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> I've got several systems around here that are nearly > impossible to determine what rev is on them because they all say > 2.2-STABLE, even though some of them are from the 2.2.0 time frame, > and others are 2 hours old. If I can't tell the difference, then > autoconfig scripts that use uname can't either. Ah, but that's a different problem (and one I raised a couple of weeks ago). There should be some easy way (perhaps through "uname") to know where along the STABLE continuum a particular system resides. +--------------- | FreeBSD freebie.dcfinc.com 2.1-STABLE FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE #0: | Wed May 21 21:44:12 MST 1997 | chad@freefall.anasazi.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/FREEBIE i386 +--------------- I had suggested incrementing the number after the octithorpe (the #0 above). I was told that number gets incremented if you rebuild your kernel, which may be true but doesn't address the problem. -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL22) Brother, can you paradigm? 602-953-1392 chad@dcfinc.com chad@anasazi.com crl22@aol.com DCF, Inc. - 14523 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254
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