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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