Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2019 06:32:20 -0700 From: Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com> To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org,tech-lists <tech-lists@zyxst.net> Subject: Re: svn commit: r350550 - head/share/mk Message-ID: <F9E49222-4E2F-48BD-99E8-948821BA37D9@cschubert.com> In-Reply-To: <20190807221946.GB42725@bastion.zyxst.net> References: <20190807201448.GA42725@bastion.zyxst.net> <201908072050.x77Ko5QD089298@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> <CAGMYy3tyGNOgwhKospck2JXg7z%2BDTW9O7GtgK054cdguvXuN4g@mail.gmail.com> <20190807221946.GB42725@bastion.zyxst.net>
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On August 7, 2019 3:19:46 PM PDT, tech-lists <tech-lists@zyxst.net> wrote: >On Wed, Aug 07, 2019 at 02:08:14PM -0700, Xin LI wrote: > >Hi, > >>I haven't dig deep on this topic, but it seems that parsing 'svn info' >>output would solve it (by using "Last Changed Rev:" value). >> >>This issue do not exist on git. > >svn info will not return the revision of the running system. This is my >point. With reproductible build turned on, there is no way as far as >I'm aware >of getting the revision of the sources the system was built from, and >that bit of info can be very useful diagnosing/fixing and updating. > >It will return the revision of what the source directory was last >updated to. >That will probably be later than the running system. It won't return >anything at all of course if the sources are no longer there. > >I'll try explaining another way. Let's say I'm relatively new to >freebsd >and I read up on downloading a 12-stable-snapshot and follow stable. >Some issue with the base system happens. I email to stable@ and they >ask >what I'm running. I say, (because reproductible build defaults to "on" >in >this example) 12-stable. It's not really helpful to those wanting to >assist. What benefit is had by losing this information by default? This change doesn't affect and never will affect users of stable. This is a -current (13-current to be exact) change only. -- Pardon the typos and autocorrect, small keyboard in use. Cheers, Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com> FreeBSD UNIX: <cy@FreeBSD.org> Web: http://www.FreeBSD.org The need of the many outweighs the greed of the few.
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