Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 09:21:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Hetzels@aol.com To: chad@dcfinc.com Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVSUP vs. SNAPS Message-ID: <971003092057_519245415@emout04.mail.aol.com>
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In a message dated 97-10-02 20:37:36 EDT, chad@freebie.dcfinc.com writes: > > > I've got several systems around here that are nearly > > impossible to determine what rev is on them because they all say > > 2.2-STABLE, even though some of them are from the 2.2.0 time frame, > > and others are 2 hours old. If I can't tell the difference, then > > autoconfig scripts that use uname can't either. > > Ah, but that's a different problem (and one I raised a couple of weeks ago). > > There should be some easy way (perhaps through "uname") to know where > along the STABLE continuum a particular system resides. > I've come up with a fix for this problem that uses the CTM number to indicate the systems current status. See my message "CTM patch level added to newvers.sh" for the patch. Scot W. Hetzel
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