Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 16:24:02 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Joseph Stein <joes@seaport.net> Cc: andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu, nate@mt.sri.com, rkw@dataplex.net, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Version Resolution? Message-ID: <199711192324.QAA07495@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <199711192320.PAA02638@shasta.wstein.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971119123617.2991B-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> <199711192320.PAA02638@shasta.wstein.com>
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> > Anyway, here's what uname -r does for me right now: > > > > 2.2.5-STABLE-971118 > > > > Perhaps it would be better if it just said 2.2.5-971118. However, the > > date should somehow or other come with the sources and identify the > > build as based on sources as of a particular date (with time if > > necessary). At least that's how it seems to me. > > So you make newvers.sh a dynamic file, with some hook or other(tm) built in > to cvsup or whatever method you used -- even something as simple as looking > at /usr/sup/* to get the timestamp from the sup statistics... > to make it look like this: > > 2.2.5-STABLE-879981548 -- the time value in seconds since epoch. Sounds easy, but in practice it's a bit more difficult than you think, because of the many 'distribution' mechanims that are used by folks to get bits. Nate
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