From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jun 29 13:52: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4902537C29E; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 13:51:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id NAA63421; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 13:51:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 13:51:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: Christoph Sold Cc: Doug Lee , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: snapshot --> make world: what happens to the yyyymmdd? In-Reply-To: <395B4064.C114985C@i-clue.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message