On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 10:35:40PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 9:18 PM +0200 1/29/03, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > >Can anyone think of a good way to implement an installworld / > >installkernel seat-belt for source upgrades from stable to current? > > > >What I'm looking for is a way for installworld and installkernel > >in the current source to look for some signature in the target > >filesystem that suggests that a stable world is about to be > >upgraded to current. > > How about requiring the user to touch some file in / or /boot which > indicates the branch-tag that's acceptable for installworlds? Then > you just need to propagate the tag from the 'cvs co' stage to some > file under /usr/src (such as /usr/src/CVS/Tag ). > > So, maybe compare /usr/src/CVS/Tag to /boot/BRANCH_TAG, where the > second file has to be typed in by the user, by hand. Eh, maybe > /boot isn't the right place for it. Well, maybe /.branch_tag >
I don't have a /usr/src/CVS directory. I suspect most people don't pulldown the cvs repository. uname(1) works on both 4.7 and 5.0. This seems like a trivial problem to fix. -- Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
