Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 13:51:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de> Cc: Doug Lee <dgl@visi.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: snapshot --> make world: what happens to the yyyymmdd? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006291349330.62750-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <395B4064.C114985C@i-clue.de>
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On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Christoph Sold wrote:
> > If I install a 4.0 snapshot, I understand it will print the snapshot date
> > as part of the OS version identification... but if I then cvsup and make
> > world, will the date stay the same, change, or vanish?
>
> It will change to the date you compiled the source, uname -a will show
> the machine it was compiled on, along with the date and the tag.
No, it will vanish.
FreeBSD mollari.usc.edu 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #6: Sun Jun 18
03:50:43 PDT 2000 kkenn@mollari.usc.edu:/usr/src2/sys/compile/MOLLARI
i386
The 5.0-yyyymmdd-CURRENT (ditto for 4.0) only gets put there when you're
installing a snapshot made from 'make release'.
Kris
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