From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 9 07:57:11 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADB1216A420 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2006 07:57:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from hlh@restart.be) Received: from xizor.is.scarlet.be (xizor.is.scarlet.be [193.74.71.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61A5D43D48 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2006 07:57:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from hlh@restart.be) Received: from (ip-83-134-195-49.dsl.scarlet.be [83.134.195.49]) by xizor.is.scarlet.be with ESMTP id k297v7E20297 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2006 08:57:07 +0100 Received: from norquay.restart.bel (localhost.restart.bel [127.0.0.1]) by restart.be (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k297ux9D072405 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2006 08:56:59 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from hlh@restart.be) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=norquay; d=restart.be; c=nofws; q=dns; h=received:x-authentication-warning:message-id:date:from:to: subject:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type: content-disposition:content-transfer-encoding:user-agent:received-spf: x-spam-status:x-scanned-by; b=o2D+L4k8B70xpX1//mXm60uN2/DKTxoaBZvvDGRRG0IXnPu+L9kLEhCmNHt2uBY3u SOHH7GRL5EvSTRPTQx78A== Received: (from www@localhost) by norquay.restart.bel (8.13.5/8.13.4/Submit) id k297uxB0072404 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Thu, 9 Mar 2006 08:56:59 +0100 (CET) X-Authentication-Warning: norquay.restart.bel: www set sender to hlh@restart.be using -f Received: from ip-213-49-229-211.dsl.scarlet.be (ip-213-49-229-211.dsl.scarlet.be [213.49.229.211]) by webmail.restart.be (Horde MIME library) with HTTP; Thu, 09 Mar 2006 08:56:58 +0100 Message-ID: <20060309085658.o6d44acukg4ksso8@webmail.restart.be> Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 08:56:58 +0100 From: Henri Hennebert To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <440F393C.9030302@rogers.com> <7.0.1.0.2.20060308120809.03286448@antimatter.net> <440F3DAC.4030402@rogers.com> In-Reply-To: <440F3DAC.4030402@rogers.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; DelSp="Yes"; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H3 (4.1) Received-SPF: pass (norquay.restart.bel: localhost is always allowed.) X-Spam-Status: -1.1 (ALL_TRUSTED,AWL) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.56 on 192.168.24.1 Subject: Re: Changing release version on source X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 07:57:11 -0000 Quoting Mike Jakubik : > Glenn Dawson wrote: >> At 12:06 PM 3/8/2006, you wrote: >>> Does anyone know how to change the release version of the source =20 >>> code? I have some brain dead software (Plesk) that insists on =20 >>> FreeBSD 5.3, while it will work just fine on 5.5 and even 6. I am =20 >>> wondering i can change the version of RELENG_5 code so that this =20 >>> software will think its 5.3-R and let me install. I have tried =20 >>> changing the variable in /usr/src/release/Makefile, but that seems =20 >>> to have no effect. >> >> Take a look at sys/conf/newvers.sh > > Excellent, thanks! I'm presuming i have to do a full build/install > world for this to take effect. Do you think that anything may break > because of this manual change, even if i used RELENG_6 code? I will not > be installing any ports. I would prefer to wrap /usr/bin/uname with a temporary custom version =20 returning the disired values. Henri ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.