Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2016 18:17:45 +0100 From: Christoph Brinkhaus <c.brinkhaus@t-online.de> To: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn revision in uname Message-ID: <20160207171745.GA41125@esprimo.local> In-Reply-To: <20160208024820.K51785@sola.nimnet.asn.au> References: <20160207223554.P51785@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <56B73E8C.5060501@FreeBSD.org> <20160207153505.GA1420@esprimo.local> <20160208024820.K51785@sola.nimnet.asn.au>
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On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 03:24:35AM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: Dear Ian, > On Sun, 7 Feb 2016 16:35:05 +0100, Christoph Brinkhaus wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 12:54:36PM +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > > On 07/02/2016 12:11, Ian Smith wrote: > > > > I've been using svnup for source updates for ages, and for my occasional > > > > use it works fine. However one thing you don't get is the svn revision > > > > shown in uname, eg % uname -vm > > > > FreeBSD 9.3-STABLE #0: Thu Oct 29 03:18:26 EST 2015 > > > > root@x200.smithi.id.au:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 > > > > % svnversion /usr/src > > > 295073M > > > > > > If that fails, it will try running svnliteversion, and then cycle > > > through various different ways of extracting a version string from other > > > VCSes until it gets a result. > > > > The version svnlite is part of the system and > > does not need to be installed separately. > > On 10.x - since 10.1 maybe? - but not on 9.x. Ok, I have overlook this. > > > Here svnliteversion /usr/src works. > > If you're pulling sources with svnlite, so it should :) Conversion > between using svn and svnup, either way, requires some care and cleaning > up; generally best advice is not to try mixing these methods. > I was not aware of that. I thought svnlite has just less capabilities. Thank you! > cheers, Ian > Kind regards, Christoph
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