From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Apr 10 17:18:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82D3637B422 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 17:18:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id f3B0Iit11922; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 17:18:44 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 17:18:44 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Scot.W.Hetel@spare.westbend.net Cc: FreeBSD-Stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Release (patch included) Message-ID: <20010410171844.I15938@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <200104110014.f3B0Ejx27571@spare.westbend.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200104110014.f3B0Ejx27571@spare.westbend.net>; from Scot.W.Hetel@spare.westbend.net on Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 07:14:45PM -0500 X-all-your-base: are belong to us. Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Scot.W.Hetel@spare.westbend.net [010410 17:11] wrote: > Since, noone supplied a patch that will help users to find the > information when the tag changes from -STABLE/-CURRENT to -BETA > or -RC. I created a patch to newvers.sh that will display an > informitive message. > > This patch changes the version string to include a message > that can be used to inform the admin on where to get more > information on the meaning of RC, BETA, & CURRENT. Unfortunetly patches like this don't address the problem of a user accidentally upgrading to a version he doesn't want. For a patch to address that see: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=28213+0+archive/2001/freebsd-arch/20010325.freebsd-arch -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message