On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 04:37:50PM -0500, der Mouse wrote: > > Just because you build any branch, including current, 3 month ago, > > doesn't say much about the sources. > > True. What I use the timestamp for (when I use it at all, that is) is > answering "is the bootloader (or whatever) I'm getting the one I just > built and think I installed, or did something go wrong?". The > difference between ten minutes old and two weeks old is important; the > difference between two weeks old and six months old is not.
BTW, the kernel version is still included, so at least on -current you can normally detect the case of "pretty recent" and "a few month old" from that as well. Joerg
