Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 11:41:15 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> To: Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding support for a global src tree serial number Message-ID: <15449.36811.343058.246674@caddis.yogotech.com> In-Reply-To: <20020131183618.C84715@genius.tao.org.uk> References: <3C5944A4.4927F812@mindspring.com> <80628.1012484102@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> <15449.30438.698921.182380@caddis.yogotech.com> <20020131173702.J77899@genius.tao.org.uk> <15449.33154.45261.703514@caddis.yogotech.com> <20020131175001.K77899@genius.tao.org.uk> <15449.34112.10169.928474@caddis.yogotech.com> <20020131182839.B84715@genius.tao.org.uk> <15449.36214.123443.928826@caddis.yogotech.com> <20020131183618.C84715@genius.tao.org.uk>
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> > > 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. > > > > Agreed. But, I don't think we should limit it to just kernel, since > > there are non-kernel bugs, and it would be nice to know how they work. > > Of course. The kernel is a good place to start though. The date in > uname -v isn't particularly helpful at the moment. Agreed. > Userland issues > are clouded by the fact that each piece of software is discrete. And, it's not just a binary software issue. Configuration files that change, etc... > Also > we have 'ident' which can tell us about any particular piece of > software. We could almost do a ident-extract-latest-date in periodic > to deal with userland. See above. Ident doesn't give a snapshot of the entire system. Having a global serial # for the system is a better thing in terms of user support, IMO. (It could be included in PR reports). Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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