James Carlson wrote:
The issue with release management still seems murky to me. I assume that distributions do not get to manage uname -r, unless they're willing to fork. If this is the ON community's task, then how (reasonably) do distributions identify their releases?
Solaris uses /etc/release to tag their product. uname is simply the version information for one of the components used to construct Solaris. java --version is another, as is gnome:About:popup... In my world view, the OpenSolaris ON Core Community owns uname, the GNOME community owns their About popup, and the Java community owns their --version. Distros/Products need to create their own versioning mechanism - reusing /etc/release may work for some, others (embedded...) may choose different mechanisms. -John _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
