From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Feb 1 20:26: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 885) id 48CFE37B47B; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 20:26:04 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 20:26:03 -0800 From: Eric Melville To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Adding support for a global src tree serial number Message-ID: <20020201202603.A69486@FreeBSD.org> References: <79300.1012474898@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <79300.1012474898@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>; from sheldonh@starjuice.net on Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 01:01:38PM +0200 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 > I'd like to propose the addition of a global src tree serial number that > uniquely identifies an imaginary snapshot of the src tree. > > Essentially, the serial number lives in a file, the name of which is > not important until I have buy-in on the concept. Let's call it > src/SERIAL for now. Yes, I'll need to do something along these lines for binary updates. I think about it occasionally but haven't come up with anything concrete. It sounds like you're on to something, although for my purposes the mechanism must be more fine-grained. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message