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Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 11:25:44 -0700
From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>,
	Adrian Penisoara <ady@freebsd.ady.ro>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG,
	bde@FreeBSD.ORG, dillon@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: __FBSDID breaks buildworld upgrading
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On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 02:08:30PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> It would be nice if NetBSD and OpenBSD could pick this up.  Perhaps
> that is a topic for the "bsd-api-discuss" mailing list?  Even if
> they just put it in as
>    #define __FBSDID(x)  /* nothing */

Totally agreed.  We picked up their method, but I've heard from one that
tried to get them to pick up ours that they refused.  We do a very good
job of perserving their SCM ID's.  I've seen cases where {Net,Open}BSD
doesn't try as hard.

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