From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Apr 11 13:13:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from exosecure-exo-sc.exodus.net (exosecure.exodus.net [209.1.10.206]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 01E4037B424 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 13:13:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Michael.Butler@exodus.net) Received: from exoserv.exodus.net by exosecure-exo-sc.exodus.net via smtpd (for hub.freebsd.org [216.136.204.18]) with SMTP; 11 Apr 2001 20:13:50 UT Received: from scl4mlims02.exodus.net ([10.255.39.51]) by exoserv.exodus.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA04850 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 13:13:49 -0700 Received: by SCL4MLIMS02 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2654.52) id <2T62MKTT>; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 13:13:48 -0700 Message-ID: From: Michael Butler To: "'freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: RE: Releases Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 13:13:48 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2654.52) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: Oliver Fromme [mailto:olli@secnetix.de] > Sent: Wednesday, 11 April 2001 15:49 > To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Releases > > > I would also vote for ``uname -r'' saying ``4-STABLE'' and > > > appending the date (similar to the snapshot naming), like > > > ``4-STABLE-20010509''. This is much more useful than > > > ``4.3-STABLE'', IMO. > That would be rather difficult. > Storing the date (without time of day) in that string would > require some cron script somewhere (probably on the master > CVS server) that updates the newvers.sh file daily. This > might sound like a gross hack, but so far I haven't seen a > better idea. Perhaps we could add something to either: i) snoop through the cvsup tags on the client to identify the most recently modified file and use it's datestamp as the '-stable-yymmdd' seed or ii) modify cvsup client to record most recently modified file in a more convenient place from which 'make buildworld' can retrieve the same, Michael Butler Managed Security Services Exodus Communications US Cell: +1-408-896-6689 Australian Cell: +61-413-571-819 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message