From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Jan 31 13: 7:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from draco.over-yonder.net (draco.over-yonder.net [198.78.58.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5D8037B416 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 13:07:21 -0800 (PST) Received: by draco.over-yonder.net (Postfix, from userid 100) id B327AFC4; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 15:07:20 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 15:07:20 -0600 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: Josef Karthauser Cc: Nate Williams , Sheldon Hearn , Terry Lambert , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding support for a global src tree serial number Message-ID: <20020131150720.A33201@over-yonder.net> References: <3C5944A4.4927F812@mindspring.com> <80628.1012484102@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> <15449.30438.698921.182380@caddis.yogotech.com> <20020131173702.J77899@genius.tao.org.uk> <20020131183321.GA59544@gattaca.yadt.co.uk> <20020131184230.D84715@genius.tao.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5-fullermd.1i In-Reply-To: <20020131184230.D84715@genius.tao.org.uk>; from joe@tao.org.uk on Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 06:42:30PM +0000 X-Editor: vi X-OS: FreeBSD Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 06:42:30PM +0000 I heard the voice of Josef Karthauser, and lo! it spake thus: > > The problem is where to put the serial number, and how to distribute it. > It needs to be maintained in a ,v file for cvs to be able to check it > out. That adds additional complexity. Note also the additional trouble of underhandedly hand-crafting a ,v-alike file will break checking out a revision other than the absolute latest on the branch, since you'll end up with either no serial, or still the latest serial, depending on how the file is crafted. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Unix Systems Administrator | fullermd@futuresouth.com Specializing in FreeBSD | http://www.over-yonder.net/ "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message