4.8R and $FreeBSD$ version tag expansion

[David A. Panariti]

>>>>> "Bruce" == Bruce A Mah <bmah at freebsd.org> writes:
   Bruce> If memory serves me right, Julian Stacey wrote:
   Reference>
   >> > From: "David A. Gobeille" <dgobeille at earthlink.net> Date: Fri, 04 Apr
   >> > 2003 18:21:00 -0600 Message-id: <3E8E216C.2060009 at earthlink.net>
   >>
   >> "David A. Gobeille" wrote:
   >> > I noticed that there were quite a few files with version ids of
   >> > '$FreeBSD$' when I ran mergemaster after an install of 4.8R.  This
   >> > isn't
   >>
   >> I read tags were reworked.  Prob. you'r working from old sources, &
   >> It'll rectify if you wait a day & then { refresh your CVS tree &
   >> re-export src/ } or { if src/ from a .iso, check your MD5, & refetch
   >> from local mirror if old }, then remake.

   Bruce> I think I explained this in a prior posting to this list, but what
   Bruce> happened was that the $FreeBSD$ CVS keywords didn't get expanded
   Bruce> the first time we tried to build a release.  mergemaster hates
   Bruce> this, as the original poster discovered.  For this and other
   Bruce> reasons, we considered this a showstopper and rebuilt the release;
   Bruce> when we did, we also needed to modify one file and slide its CVS
   Bruce> tag.

   Bruce> Users updating from sources (e.g. using cvsup or anon CVS) were
   Bruce> probably not affected by this.
In confirmation, I updated from source on Apr 4 ~2pm EST and haven't seen any
$FreeBSD$ ids in /etc/...

   >> PS I told re@ some hours back that there's no
   ftp> //ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/4.8/CHECKSUM.MD5
   >> they looked: there is CHECKSUM.MD5 on ftp-master, but it's not made it
   >> over yet - the servers are very busy: waiting seems best solution :-)

   Bruce> And in my reply to you, I mentioned that I had already put the
   Bruce> contents of CHECKSUM.MD5 (for the i386 ISO images anyways) in the
   Bruce> 4.8 errata file, which is on the Web site.  :-)

   Bruce> Cheers,

   Bruce> Bruce.