From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 24 06:07:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA04560 for stable-outgoing; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 06:07:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable) Received: from shrimp.dataplex.net (shrimp.dataplex.net [208.2.87.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA04551 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 06:07:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rkw@dataplex.net) Received: from [208.2.87.4] (user4.dataplex.net [208.2.87.4]) by shrimp.dataplex.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA07562; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 08:07:12 -0600 (CST) X-Sender: rkw@mail.dataplex.net Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <199711241353.PAA00306@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> References: from Richard Wackerbarth at "Nov 24, 97 07:04:49 am" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 08:06:33 -0600 To: John Hay From: Richard Wackerbarth Subject: Re: Version Resolution? Cc: nate@mt.sri.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 7:53 AM -0600 11/24/97, John Hay wrote: >Something I have been worrying about. If I get the latest cvs repository >in this new scheme and I then do a 'cvs co -D"yesterday" src' do I get >the date/number of yesterday or do I still get the one that was generated >at the last cvs commit? It would seem wrong to me if I get the latest one >if I check out something not current, ie RELENG_2_2_5_RELEASE, it should >be the "version number" that goes with that date/tag. No. Since we only attempt to give an approximate idea of the date of a checkout from the HEAD, you get nothing. The routines which are processing things are expected to recognize that the file does not exist and use an alternate mechanism. In particular, I feel that we should have the checkout tag determine the identification string. "Releases" are just that and can properly be identified as such. For example: "FreeBSD 2.2.5 (Release)" rather than today's 2.2 head "FreeBSD 2.2.5 (11/24/97)" Richard Wackerbarth