On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 07:37:01 -0400 (EDT), Daniel Feenberg wrote: > > > On Thu, 25 Apr 2013, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > > > > > The problem under discussion is that the kernel version does not > > change when a freebsd-update update does not include a kernel change. > > > > Perhaps we could adopt the Linux practice of placing the release > information in /etc/issue
I'd like to see a working placeholder for this file, not a modification, because it could be a "custom file" (created specifically for a system). Or do you perhaps refer to /etc/motd and the update_motd="YES" (update version info in /etc/motd) as seen in /etc/defaults/rc.conf? In /etc/issue, you write something like "%s/%m %r" to print the information before the login prompt. Or you use something like the traditional "im=\r\n%s/%m (%h) (%t)" in /etc/gettytab. Those are placeholders, the information is stored _outside_ of the files. Maybe it could be possible to add a text file in /etc that will contain the correct OS and kernel version number, maybe the date of the source the system has been built from (or the binary package for freebsd-update has been created from), and maybe the SVN revision number, because it looks important. :-) Then, if there could be mechanisms to plug this information properly into the traditional placeholders as described. Uhm... that would be great. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"