Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 15:30:21 -0600 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> To: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> Cc: Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk>, 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: <20020131153021.B36665@over-yonder.net> In-Reply-To: <15449.45750.572076.480900@caddis.yogotech.com>; from nate@yogotech.com on Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 02:10:14PM -0700 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> <15449.45750.572076.480900@caddis.yogotech.com>
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On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 02:10:14PM -0700 I heard the voice of
Nate Williams, and lo! it spake thus:
>
> 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.
Actually, I was thinking more of:
"I did a make world and the resulting system {wasn't as stable,<insert
problem here>}, so I checked out with {CVS,CVSup} a tree from 2 weeks ago
and built it, and now I have {no serial number,the latest serial number}."
> 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.)
Ooh, I dislike such a file rather intensely myself.
Just the thought of watching a CVSup copy down a file with a few hundred
revisions every time I run it is scary, to say nothing of the space it
would take up after a few years. I don't have a solution for this, only
the problem.
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