4.8R and $FreeBSD$ version tag expansion

MikeM zlists at mgm51.com
Sat Apr 5 05:51:17 PST 2003


On 4/5/2003 at 3:03 AM 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.  ...
|
|I read tags were reworked.  ...
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Initially the tags were not expanded properly.   When that problem was
fixed, the size of the programs increased enough (!) such that one of the
floppy disk images was greater than the size of your average floppy disk.

The disk and program layouts had to be adjusted and 4.8 re-built.









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