Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 14:10:14 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> To: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> Cc: Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk>, 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: <15449.45750.572076.480900@caddis.yogotech.com> In-Reply-To: <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> <20020131150720.A33201@over-yonder.net>
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> > 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. In general, that would only be a problem with folks that have the CVS tree who have updated their CVS tree but have not updated their /usr/src tree. In general, I don't consider this to be a bad thing, since otherwise any solution you had would have to keep a complete running history of all the revisions, which is IMO unacceptable. (JDP has also stated his dislike for such a file.) Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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