From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Jan 31 13:30:36 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 00E2037B41D for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 13:30:22 -0800 (PST) Received: by draco.over-yonder.net (Postfix, from userid 100) id 9CB8CFC4; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 15:30:21 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 15:30:21 -0600 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: Nate Williams Cc: Josef Karthauser , Sheldon Hearn , Terry Lambert , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding support for a global src tree serial number Message-ID: <20020131153021.B36665@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> <15449.45750.572076.480900@caddis.yogotech.com> 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: <15449.45750.572076.480900@caddis.yogotech.com>; from nate@yogotech.com on Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 02:10:14PM -0700 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 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,}, 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. -- 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