On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 08:56:58AM +0100, Henri Hennebert wrote: > Quoting Mike Jakubik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >Glenn Dawson wrote: > >>At 12:06 PM 3/8/2006, you wrote: > >>>Does anyone know how to change the release version of the source > >>>code? I have some brain dead software (Plesk) that insists on > >>>FreeBSD 5.3, while it will work just fine on 5.5 and even 6. I am > >>>wondering i can change the version of RELENG_5 code so that this > >>>software will think its 5.3-R and let me install. I have tried > >>>changing the variable in /usr/src/release/Makefile, but that seems > >>> to have no effect. > >> > >>Take a look at sys/conf/newvers.sh > > > >Excellent, thanks! I'm presuming i have to do a full build/install > >world for this to take effect. Do you think that anything may break > >because of this manual change, even if i used RELENG_6 code? I will not > >be installing any ports. > > I would prefer to wrap /usr/bin/uname with a temporary custom version > returning > the disired values.
It already supports this, see the manpage. The software may not be using uname(1) to determine kernel version though. Kris
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