Date: Sun, 9 Jul 1995 11:25:28 -0500 From: rkw@dataplex.net (Richard Wackerbarth) To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@freefall.cdrom.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Version numbers of the different branches? Message-ID: <v02120d01ac25b1fc78b0@[199.183.109.242]>
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>> IMHO, "2.1d0803" where 0803 represents the CTM update level >> or "2.1d950706" where that represents the date of the source file sup >> would be more useful. > >The CTM sequence number will not be put into it. CTM has nothing to >do with our kernel. I was not advocating that CTM be the trigger mechanism. I was just using it as an example of the type of information that would be keyed to the file updates. >If anything we should have a cronjob update the version-string automatically >every day. The idea of a cron-job update is fine except that it should not update unless something else has changed. Remember that this same scheme will also need to work for the -stable tree. Obviously, that date will end up changing only occasionally. ---- Richard Wackerbarth rkw@dataplex.net
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