At 8:59 PM -0800 1/29/03, Steve Kargl wrote:
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 11:21:39PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
At 8:05 PM -0800 1/29/03, Steve Kargl wrote:
>uname(1) works on both 4.7 and 5.0. This seems
>like a trivial problem to fix.
If you use something fixed like uname, then what does one do once
they *DO* want to switch from one branch to another one?
Compare output from /usr/bin/uname -r to ${OBJDIR}/usr.bin/uname/uname -r.
If the strings are the same, then install. If the strings are different
or an error occurs either abort the install or wait for keyboard input
to continue the installation.
You don't need a special file to indicate what version of
FreeBSD you have. uname -r tells you.
Indeed, I know what uname -r does.
I also know that it changes when freebsd goes from 4.6 to 4.7,
even though the user has not changed what branch (RELENG_4)
they intend to be pulling updates from when we decide to change
the name.
I understand what you're advocating, I just don't prefer it. On
the other hand, I agree that would also work better than what we
have now. I only want to offer some suggestions, and let someone
else (sheldon?) decide what they wanted to implement.
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