On 06/11/2011 19:25, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > When following the instructions at > > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.2R/announce.html > > to go from 8.1 to 8.2, I'm presented during the command: > > freebsd-update upgrade -r 8.2-RELEASE > > with no less than *** 322 *** files that differ only by the CVS tag. >
The tag presumably being $FreeBSD$? Is it specifically a CVS tag? As
opposed to a SVN tag?[*] If the former, then ever since the primary src
repo switched to SVN, all of the files under /etc will get a version
number bump as a consequence of generating a new release even if the
contents didn't change. Before SVN that didn't happen.
If the files are taken directly from SVN, then I think the revision
number in any file should remain the same in all release branches unless
the file contents are changed. Perhaps generating freebsd-update
changesets directly out of SVN rather than via CVS would go a long way
to avoiding this problem.
Cheers,
Matthew
[*] The pertinent difference being that CVS has version numbers with one
or more decimal points in them, whilst SVN uses an integer value.
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