Changing release version on source

[Mike Jakubik]

Scot Hetzel wrote:
> On 3/8/06, Mike Jakubik <mikej at rogers.com> wrote:
>   
>> Does anyone know how to change the release version of the source code? I
>> have some brain dead software (Plesk) that insists on FreeBSD 5.3, while
>> it will work just fine on 5.5 and even 6. I am wondering i can change
>> the version of RELENG_5 code so that this software will think its 5.3-R
>> and let me install. I have tried changing the variable in
>> /usr/src/release/Makefile, but that seems to have no effect.
>>
>>     
> To change it, you would have to edit sys/*/param.h.
>
> Does the installer for this program use shell scripts?  If it does,
> you could edit the shell scripts to reconize newer version of FreeBSD.
>   

Yes it does, but it's not easy to change them. They also check their own 
CRC validity, and it wold be too much of a pain to do it. Also, some 
binaries do checks too.