From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Nov 19 14:39:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA07218 for stable-outgoing; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 14:39:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA07211 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 14:38:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA12776; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 15:38:50 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id PAA07175; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 15:38:46 -0700 Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 15:38:46 -0700 Message-Id: <199711192238.PAA07175@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Annelise Anderson Cc: Nate Williams , Richard Wackerbarth , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Version Resolution? In-Reply-To: References: <199711192205.PAA06912@mt.sri.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > [ Versioning the development kernels ] > > > > 2.2.5-STABLE-971118 > > > > Where does the date come from? If it's generated on your box, then it's > > of little use since it doesn't say which source tree it was built from, > > which vary wildly depending on where your sources came from. > > It *should* come with the sources, as I said, so that the date is valid > no matter when the "make world" is done or when the kernel is built. > This seems to be the hard part. Right. That's the hard part. :( Nate