cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/config configvers.h

John Baldwin jhb at FreeBSD.org
Sat Nov 5 08:19:26 PST 2005


On Friday 04 November 2005 12:59 pm, Warner Losh wrote:
> > I think the more useful thing would be to get
> > config to understand >= for it's version tests though so that version
> > bumps aren't quite so painful.
>
> Consider http://people.freebsd.org/~imp/conf.diff
>
> It implements that test, with one caveat.  The major version number
> (the 6 in 600003) is also tested.  We should only bump this version
> number whenever there's a major change in the config system such that
> the new config can't grok older config files.  So it should *NOT* be
> automatically bumped at branch points, but incremented by the human
> doing the backwards incompatible change.

I think that might be a bit more complicated than just a simple >= test (which 
would be separate from the = test).

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