From owner-freebsd-current Sat Apr 18 05:10:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA24439 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 05:10:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.119.24.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA24427 for ; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 12:10:03 GMT (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [194.198.43.36]) by ns1.yes.no (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA04617; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 12:09:55 GMT Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id OAA04822; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 14:09:54 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19980418140954.28168@follo.net> Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 14:09:54 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund To: Richard Wackerbarth , Greg Lehey Cc: Karl Pielorz , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Quick Question re: Dmesg & Current Version References: <353802A2.CB67FCE7@tdx.co.uk>; <353802A2.CB67FCE7@tdx.co.uk> <19980418113504.U1090@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Richard Wackerbarth on Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 02:47:58AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 02:47:58AM -0500, Richard Wackerbarth wrote: > At 9:05 PM -0500 4/17/98, Greg Lehey wrote: > >On Sat, 18 April 1998 at 2:32:18 +0100, Karl Pielorz wrote: > >> 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, please don't take this personally) I was in favour of reaching Richard's goal (and I think all of us where), but saw Nate's arguments as fully convincing. Loosing information if you loose a race is not acceptable for a production system as large as FreeBSD. I'd be glad if you looked into providing a solution for the problems with your change, and will try to get the change in if you do so. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message