freebsd-version(1) enchancement

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Tue Nov 12 11:55:39 UTC 2013


Kimmo Paasiala <kpaasial at gmail.com> writes:
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no> writes:
> > Kimmo Paasiala <kpaasial at gmail.com> writes:
> > > Would it make sense to also include the svnversion(1) of the
> > > system sources in the version output?
> > No.  It is not available in the most important use case for
> > freebsd-version(1), i.e. freebsd-update builds.
> I didn't express myself well enough I guess.

I understood you perfectly, but the svn revision number is not available
to the freebsd-update build, nor to users who build from a git checkout.

DES
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