From owner-freebsd-current Fri Aug 25 23:46:09 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id XAA23387 for current-outgoing; Fri, 25 Aug 1995 23:46:09 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA23381 for ; Fri, 25 Aug 1995 23:46:07 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id IAA01624 for ; Sat, 26 Aug 1995 08:46:04 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA23941 for current@freebsd.org; Sat, 26 Aug 1995 08:46:04 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id HAA09356 for current@freebsd.org; Sat, 26 Aug 1995 07:55:53 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199508260555.HAA09356@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Request for bumping OSRELDATE To: current@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 26 Aug 1995 07:55:52 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199508260229.TAA04071@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Aug 25, 95 07:29:36 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1373 Sender: current-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > Yes, exactly. Make it 08, NEVER make it higher than "today". ok. > I will affirm this possition. Setting OSRELDATE to the future is > a really nasty thing to do. As is doing #ifdef's based upon an > unassigned numbers (something in pcvt comes to mind). 2.0.5 has been an "assigned number" by the time when i've started to put the #ifdef's there -- remember, it has even been CVS tagged. The error was to remove a CVS tag (which should IMHO never be done, even if the tag remains unused since the release never happens). CVS(1) CVS(1) NAME cvs - Concurrent Versions System ... tag [-lQqR] [-b] [-d] symbolic_tag [files...] ... If you use `cvs tag -d symbolic_tag...', the sym- bolic tag you specify is deleted instead of being added. Warning: Be very certain of your ground ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ before you delete a tag; doing this effectively ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ discards some historical information, which may later turn out to have been valuable. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)