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Date:      Tue, 1 Jul 1997 23:15:48 +1000
From:      David Dawes <dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au>
To:        Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Determining FreeBSD versions
Message-ID:  <19970701231548.62722@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199707011243.OAA14341@bitbox.follo.net>; from Eivind Eklund on Tue, Jul 01, 1997 at 02:43:43PM %2B0200
References:  <19970701190353.50830@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> <199707011243.OAA14341@bitbox.follo.net>

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On Tue, Jul 01, 1997 at 02:43:43PM +0200, Eivind Eklund wrote:
>> 
>> Is there a better way to reliably distinguish between versions,
>> particularly the vintage of one of the "-STABLE" versions?  The imake
>> config allows these version parameters to be manually overriden, and
>> that's what I'm doing for now.  It would be good if the auto-detect
>> mechanism could be made to work in this case though.  I don't mind so
>> much about -CURRENT, since that's known to be more of a moving target.
>
>/usr/include/osreldate.h should be fairly easy to parse, and give very
>good data, especially after the format was fixed :)

OK, I think that will do what I need.

David



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