From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Mar 25 13:57:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 504D837B90C; Sat, 25 Mar 2000 13:56:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA16775; Sat, 25 Mar 2000 22:56:40 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Will Andrews , Alexander Langer , vns@delta.odessa.ua, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: linprocfs and vmware References: From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 25 Mar 2000 22:56:40 +0100 In-Reply-To: Kris Kennaway's message of "Sat, 25 Mar 2000 13:24:51 -0800 (PST)" Message-ID: Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Kris Kennaway writes: > I think DES should bump __FreeBSD_version. We're hardly going to run out > of namespace over the course of 4.0 or 5.0, and it would make detection > much easier. But less accurate. What about 3.x users who build and install linprocfs because they want to run vmware without upgrading? Checking for the existence of the module is simple enough, and much more accurate than checking the OS version. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message