From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Jan 31 13:10:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6536237B416 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 13:10:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from caddis.yogotech.com (caddis.yogotech.com [206.127.123.130]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA27392; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 14:10:20 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by caddis.yogotech.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0VLAH216943; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 14:10:18 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate) From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15449.45750.572076.480900@caddis.yogotech.com> Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 14:10:14 -0700 To: "Matthew D. Fuller" Cc: Josef Karthauser , Nate Williams , Sheldon Hearn , Terry Lambert , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding support for a global src tree serial number 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> X-Mailer: VM 6.96 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) 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 > > 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