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Date:      Fri, 4 Nov 2005 16:27:49 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, ceri@submonkey.net, ru@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/config configvers.h
Message-ID:  <200511041627.51445.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20051104.105947.74720835.imp@bsdimp.com>
References:  <20051104.091549.55832472.imp@bsdimp.com> <200511041143.22007.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20051104.105947.74720835.imp@bsdimp.com>

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On Friday 04 November 2005 12:59 pm, Warner Losh wrote:
> > I think the more useful thing would be to get
> > config to understand >=3D for it's version tests though so that version
> > bumps aren't quite so painful.
>
> Consider http://people.freebsd.org/~imp/conf.diff
>
> It implements that test, with one caveat.  The major version number
> (the 6 in 600003) is also tested.  We should only bump this version
> number whenever there's a major change in the config system such that
> the new config can't grok older config files.  So it should *NOT* be
> automatically bumped at branch points, but incremented by the human
> doing the backwards incompatible change.

I think that might be a bit more complicated than just a simple >=3D test (=
which=20
would be separate from the =3D test).

=2D-=20
John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> =A0<>< =A0http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
"Power Users Use the Power to Serve" =A0=3D =A0http://www.FreeBSD.org



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