From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Oct 3 17:21:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA22441 for stable-outgoing; Fri, 3 Oct 1997 17:21:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.dcfinc.com (freebie.dcfinc.com [138.113.2.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA22434 for ; Fri, 3 Oct 1997 17:21:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freebie.dcfinc.com (8.8.3/8.8.3a) id RAA01013; Fri, 3 Oct 1997 17:19:56 -0700 (MST) From: "Chad R. Larson" Message-Id: <199710040019.RAA01013@freebie.dcfinc.com> Subject: Re: CVSup release identity To: bob@luke.pmr.com Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 17:19:55 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19971003100413.33095@pmr.com> from Bob Willcox at "Oct 3, 97 10:04:13 am" Reply-to: chad@dcfinc.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Bob Willcox writes (from another thread): > Note that I have upgraded my system a few times since I first started > seeing this problem (right now I'm running 2.2-stable as of about 5 > days ago), yet the problem persists. This is exactly the ambiguity we're discussing. He says,"as of about 5 days ago." Wouldn't it be better for the guy trying to fix things if his uname returned something like "2.2-STABLE-AA"? If we used [0-9A-Z][0-9A-Z] it would recycle every 1300 (or so) commits. If we allowed lower-case characters as well, we could run that out to 3844 commits. How many commits are done in, say, a week? Or year? I guess what I'm suggesting is that CVS should increment a variable, and create a file containing the variable each time a change is committed to a particular branch. CVSup and CTM would always have that file as part of a fetch, and newvers.sh would know how to pick up and jam that data into vers.c. Comments? -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