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From: Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk>
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	Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>,
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Subject: Re: Adding support for a global src tree serial number
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On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 10:56:16AM -0700, Nate Williams wrote:
>=20
> > Why wouldn't you get a consistent answer.  A source tree is a source
> > tree isn't it?
>=20
> Nope. I don't have alpha/pc98/sparc/ia64 bits in my x86 tree.  I don't
> have any need for them, so why have them fill up my tree.  On my alpha,
> I don't have the non-relevant bits as well.
>=20
> In short, unless you *define* a standard ahead of time, you can't
> guarantee a consistent answer.
>=20
> And, it still takes *way* too long to calculate.
>=20

Maybe we're talking about different things.  The point of having a
kernel version date that is related to the source and not to the
build-date is to have an idea of what source versions might contribute
to a bug.  It doesn't matter whether all the source is there or
not, whether they're alpha/pc98/sparc or whatever.  If we use latest
date in a $FreeBSD$ tag of the source files that are installed by
submitting the output of 'uname -v' and a kernel config file it's
possible to know the latest change in the repository that might
have caused a problem.  That solves the problem surely.

% uname -v
FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT[20011101-12:01:00] #0: Tue Jan 22 09:46:56 GMT 2002    =
 joe@genius.tao.org.uk:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENIUS=20

This clearly says that the latest change in the repository that
could make a difference was on Nov 1st 2001. The Jan 22 date is
totally arbitrary.

Also it doesn't take too long to do a find across src/sys, compared
with the amount of time it takes to build the source.  For most
users they won't notice it; for power users like us we can switch
it off in /etc/make.conf and save the time.

Joe

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