Re: Proposing a tiny change
>>>> "David" == David A Cobb
<superbiskit(a)home.com> writes:
> Report the cvs update (or checkout) command line you used and
the
> time
> and time zone you ran it. That determines what you'll get.
> version.sh can't possible have that information.
David> Precisely what I'm trying to pin down. Now, why "can't
David> possibly?" version.sh looks like a very simple shell
David> script - if you added a shell variable for the date and set
David> it from `date` whenever a bugfix is applied, what component
David> would even care?
David,
version.sh and all other files you update via CVS depend on WHEN and
HOW YOU choose to update. You may apply patches or manual changes on
top of that.
What I am trying to point out: Only you can know what exactly you are
building from. Know your sources :-)
If you use straight-forward ways to update from CVS, like
cvs update -r r21-5-3
then the thing to report is just that.
I don't see a simple solution to this general problem.
Best regards,
Adrian
David> OK, It need not be in version.sh, I'm just begging that it
David> be somewhere in the tree where I can attach one simple file
David> to a question/report and y'all will know *precisely* what
David> my source-tree looked like when I built.
> Hope this helps,
> Adrian
David> Sigh!
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