svn revision in uname

[Christoph Brinkhaus]

On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 03:24:35AM +1100, Ian Smith wrote:

Dear Ian,

> On Sun, 7 Feb 2016 16:35:05 +0100, Christoph Brinkhaus wrote:
>  > On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 12:54:36PM +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote:
>  > > On 07/02/2016 12:11, Ian Smith wrote:
>  > > > I've been using svnup for source updates for ages, and for my occasional 
>  > > > use it works fine.  However one thing you don't get is the svn revision 
>  > > > shown in uname, eg % uname -vm
>  > > >  FreeBSD 9.3-STABLE #0: Thu Oct 29 03:18:26 EST 2015 
>  > > >  root at x200.smithi.id.au:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
> 
>  > > % svnversion /usr/src
>  > > 295073M
>  > > 
>  > > If that fails, it will try running svnliteversion, and then cycle
>  > > through various different ways of extracting a version string from other
>  > > VCSes until it gets a result.
>  > 
>  > The version svnlite is part of the system and 
>  > does not need to be installed separately.
> 
> On 10.x - since 10.1 maybe? - but not on 9.x.

Ok, I have overlook this.
> 
>  > Here svnliteversion /usr/src works.
> 
> If you're pulling sources with svnlite, so it should :)  Conversion 
> between using svn and svnup, either way, requires some care and cleaning 
> up; generally best advice is not to try mixing these methods.
> 
I was not aware of that. I thought svnlite has just less capabilities.
Thank you!

> cheers, Ian
> 
Kind regards,
Christoph