svn commit: r350550 - head/share/mk

[Cy Schubert]

On August 7, 2019 3:19:46 PM PDT, tech-lists <tech-lists at zyxst.net> wrote:
>On Wed, Aug 07, 2019 at 02:08:14PM -0700, Xin LI wrote:
>
>Hi,
>
>>I haven't dig deep on this topic, but it seems that parsing 'svn info'
>>output would solve it (by using "Last Changed Rev:" value).
>>
>>This issue do not exist on git.
>
>svn info will not return the revision of the running system. This is my
>point. With reproductible build turned on, there is no way as far as
>I'm aware
>of getting the revision of the sources the system was built from, and
>that bit of info can be very useful diagnosing/fixing and updating.
>
>It will return the revision of what the source directory was last
>updated to.
>That will probably be later than the running system. It won't return
>anything at all of course if the sources are no longer there.
>
>I'll try explaining another way. Let's say I'm relatively new to
>freebsd
>and I read up on downloading a 12-stable-snapshot and follow stable.
>Some issue with the base system happens. I email to stable@ and they
>ask
>what I'm running. I say, (because reproductible build defaults to "on"
>in
>this example) 12-stable. It's not really helpful to those wanting to
>assist. What benefit is had by losing this information by default?

This change doesn't affect and never will affect users of stable. This is a -current (13-current to be exact) change only.


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