John Plocher wrote:
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...
uname -r is the tag that determines if the given release of Solaris is
Major, Minor, Micro.
In my world view, the OpenSolaris ON Core Community owns uname,
They own the source to uname yes. But do they get to set the policy of
what value uname -r returns and how does that interact with what a given
distro wants as their type of distro.
The CDDL license allows anyone to pick any value they like for what all
fields of uname not just -r return.
If I want I can create a distro that has this uname output:
MyOS localhost 0.99.99p1 flibertyflop sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire
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Darren J Moffat
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