Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 02:47:58 -0500 From: Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@dataplex.net> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Quick Question re: Dmesg & Current Version Message-ID: <l03130300b15e08da98d4@[208.2.87.4]> In-Reply-To: <19980418113504.U1090@freebie.lemis.com> References: <353802A2.CB67FCE7@tdx.co.uk>; from Karl Pielorz on Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 02:32:18AM %2B0100 <353802A2.CB67FCE7@tdx.co.uk>
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At 9:05 PM -0500 4/17/98, Greg Lehey wrote: >On Sat, 18 April 1998 at 2:32:18 +0100, Karl Pielorz wrote: >> In the dmesg for my system I get: >> >> FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT #5: Fri Apr 17 20:25:58 BST 1998 [...] >> I'm just starting to get to grips with CVSup - is there anywhere it stores >> the date & time that the source was last updated? - Rather than the last >> build time? > >Somewhere, probably. When I used ctm, I modified /sys/conf/newvers.sh >to include the ctm update number in the header, but I haven't found >anything useful in the CVS database. Let me know if you do. Nope. AFAIK, there is nothing there. What is needed is something generated at the MASTER source and propogated through all the distribution chains. I wrote such a change last year, but it was promptly rejected on what I can only conclude were political grounds. (The supposed "technical grounds" were bogus arguments.) Perhaps someone with some clout will reconsider :-( Richard Wackerbarth To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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