From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Nov 19 17:47:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA24110 for stable-outgoing; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 17:47:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA24102 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 17:47:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA14032; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 18:47:24 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id SAA08220; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 18:47:23 -0700 Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 18:47:23 -0700 Message-Id: <199711200147.SAA08220@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Cc: andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu, nate@mt.sri.com, rkw@dataplex.net, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Version Resolution? In-Reply-To: <199711200030.QAA01153@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> References: <199711200030.QAA01153@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > * This seems to be the hard part. > > Well, how about just adding RELDATE for now (while you guys work on > the "automated" solution, that is)? At least if that value is updated > often enough, we will be able to distinguish between versions with > "major" differences (some library added, "top" added, before or after > 3.0-release, etc...). The granularity it too high. People are not likely to update RELDATE, so it's not nearly as helpful as something 'automatic'. Nate