On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 12:47:13AM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> At 8:59 PM -0800 1/29/03, Steve Kargl wrote:
> >
> >You don't need a special file to indicate what version of
> >FreeBSD you have. uname -r tells you.
> >
>
> Actually, one thing I don't know is how this would work when it
> comes to RELENG_4 vs RELENG_4_0 (since I don't run RELENG_4_0).
> What does uname show for the security branches? Just wondering.
> The uname idea is fine with me, if someone wants to implement it
> that way.
>
I don't run 4.x, so I do know. ;-)
I suspect on a 4.x system, you'll get "4.x-AAAA"
where AAAA is either FreeBSD or STABLE. To distinguish
between 4.x and 5.x, all we need the first character.
In actuality, if you build a 5.0 world on a 4.x system,
I think ${OBJDIR}/usr.bin/uname/uname will die with an
error when the shared libraries aren't found.
--
Steve
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