Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 17:50:01 +0000 From: Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk> To: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> Cc: Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk>, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding support for a global src tree serial number Message-ID: <20020131175001.K77899@genius.tao.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <15449.33154.45261.703514@caddis.yogotech.com>; from nate@yogotech.com on Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 10:40:18AM -0700 References: <3C5944A4.4927F812@mindspring.com> <80628.1012484102@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> <15449.30438.698921.182380@caddis.yogotech.com> <20020131173702.J77899@genius.tao.org.uk> <15449.33154.45261.703514@caddis.yogotech.com>
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On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 10:40:18AM -0700, Nate Williams wrote:
> > > FWIW, this has been gone over many times in the past. We even had a
> > > workable solution, but unfortunately Richard W. (the originator of sa=
id
> > > feature request) refused to acknowledge the issues and propose a
> > > solution that would satisfy all problems.
> >=20
> > This is mad! :)
> >=20
> > The easiest solution is the one that I proposed in the PR, which is to
> > use the effective date of the latest date in the $FreeBSD$ files.
>=20
> Won't work.
Does work. There is always a latest commit in the source tree.
=20
> > Of course this means going through each source file, but that's only
> > time.
>=20
> Time is a precious commodity, especially when you talk the entire tree.
> Plus, each user may have a different subset of the tree (some wouldn't
> have kerberos, some wouldn't have doc, some wouldn't have release,
> etc...)
>=20
> No standard.
There is a standard src tree though.
> > Doing anything with CVSROOT/ and cvsup, etc, is complexity that
> > isn't needed.
> >=20
> > l=3D`find /usr/src/sys | xargs grep '\$FreeBSD:.*$' | sed \
> > 's/.*\$FreeBSD://' | awk '{ print $3 "-" $4 }' | sort -n | tail -1`
> >=20
> > Kind of thing.
>=20
> Way too much overhead and you wouldn't get a consistent answer. Kind of
> like going to buying a hardware store just to hammer in a nail. :)
Why wouldn't you get a consistent answer. A source tree is a source
tree isn't it?
Joe
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