This problem was reported last week, and a fix was posted. It wasn't committed, because nobody got to it.
Look for a post from David Reed that had an exact sed script that did work correctly. Ryan On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Jeff Trawick wrote: > The check isn't working right on on FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE. > > Here is what the code to get the version string yields because > `uname -r` isn't matched by the sed script. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] httpd-2.0]$ uname -r | sed -e 's/\(.\)\.\(.\)\..*/\1\2/' > 3.4-RELEASE > > test simply bails out with this error message: > > test: 3.4-RELEASE: bad number > > I could add another step to the pipeline to standardize other version > string formats > > uname -r | sed -e 's/\(.\)\.\(.\)\..*/\1\2/' | sed -e > 's/\(.\)\.\(.\)\-.*/\1\2/' > > Ryan (or anybody else), what is a real-life example of `uname -r` output which > the existing sed substitution handles? I'll make sure that example as > well as my 3.4-RELEASE example works before committing a change. > > Thanks... > -- > Jeff Trawick | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP public key at web site: > http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Park/9289/ > Born in Roswell... married an alien... > > _______________________________________________________________________________ Ryan Bloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] 406 29th St. San Francisco, CA 94131 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
