Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 08:20:44 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Cc: dg@root.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CVSUP vs. SNAPS Message-ID: <199710061520.IAA00369@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199710051036.DAA05559@bubble.didi.com> from Satoshi Asami at "Oct 5, 97 03:36:11 am"
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> * David, perhaps you should try and figure out just what OS I am running:
> * Orbit:root {104}# uname -a
> * FreeBSD Orbit.qcsn.com 2.2-STABLE FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE #2: Fri Sep 19 13:56:36 PDT 1997 root@Orbit.aac.dev.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/ORBIT i386
> *
> * Now you tell me, is that before or after 2.2.2???
>
> I don't know. All I know is that you built your kernel on 9/19.
>
> Why does it matter whether it's before or after 2.2.2? What I need
> (if I were David trying to debug your system), what I need is exactly
> when you cvsupped (and cvs updated) your stuff last. Whether you did
> that before or after 2.2.2 is really too large of a glanurality to be
> of any help. You are tracking a moving target for christsakes, the
> uname can say "FreeBSD-STABLE" for all we care (except that will
> be confusing because of 2.1 and 2.2).
Of all people to make this mistake. Okay, I got this old box, I need
to grab a port for it, but I need to know if I want the port from
the 2.2, 2.2.1 or 2.2.2 cdrom. Yea, I updated the box a couple times,
but it still should run any port from the correct cdrom, or for that
matter from the archives on the ftp site.
Get the picture???
> Besides, if I show you a uname that says "3.0-CURRENT Fri Jan 18
> 13:56:36 PST 1998", can you tell whether it's before or after 3.0R?
Nope, not if Jordan insistes on continuing to equate a variable named
REVISION to a management tool called cvs and it's branch tags :-(
--
Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
Accurate Automation, Inc. Reliable computers for FreeBSD
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