From owner-freebsd-libh Mon Jun 3 7:52:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-libh@freebsd.org Received: from tomts22-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts22.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11AED37B400 for ; Mon, 3 Jun 2002 07:52:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shall.anarcat.ath.cx ([65.94.145.70]) by tomts22-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.19 201-253-122-122-119-20020516) with ESMTP id <20020603145216.WRKS25645.tomts22-srv.bellnexxia.net@shall.anarcat.ath.cx>; Mon, 3 Jun 2002 10:52:16 -0400 Received: from lenny.anarcat.ath.cx (lenny.anarcat.ath.cx [192.168.0.4]) by shall.anarcat.ath.cx (Postfix) with SMTP id D9CD4343; Mon, 3 Jun 2002 10:56:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: by lenny.anarcat.ath.cx (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 3 Jun 2002 10:50:35 -0400 Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 10:50:35 -0400 From: The Anarcat To: Jordan K Hubbard Cc: libh@FreeBSD.ORG, Alexander Langer Subject: Re: SYSTEM package contradictions Message-ID: <20020603145035.GA543@lenny.anarcat.ath.cx> References: <20020603020043.GF288@lenny.anarcat.ath.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Sender: owner-freebsd-libh@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable That doesn't answer all my questions. :) I think the SYSTEM package should provide the following features: > >Name Version Serial Snapshot > >OSVERSION 4.5 [1] [1] > >OSNAME FreeBSD 0 0 > >PLATFORM i386 0 0 > >CPU i586 0 0 > >LIBH_VERS 0.2.2 0 200206022150 [2] > > > >[1] there's been discussions on how to handle versionning of the > >FreeBSD source tree, but this is a tricky situation. I guess that with > >tree-based releases, only the snapshot date could be used. I'm not > >sure how to use those 2 columns. > >[2] this is not really formatted this way, but gives an idea This is not really what documentation describes. And if it's the case, poorly. There's a problem somewhere, that's for sure. A. On Sun Jun 02, 2002 at 11:26:39PM -0700, Jordan K Hubbard wrote: > The package documentation describes the correct behavior. The=20 > implementation only describes what got implemented, and not even=20 > correctly. :) --=20 =46rom the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink - greetings! --WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE8+4I6ttcWHAnWiGcRAikgAKCjGK/hVVrKBK1TRLahyVWco93qIwCdG7Ae C+a6FtOJqdrhpYomPK2SJeM= =FDxr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-libh" in the body of the message