Re: Changing release version on source

2006-03-14 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Henri Hennebert writes: | Glenn Dawson wrote: | At 12:06 PM 3/8/2006, you wrote: | Does anyone know how to change the release version of the source | code? I have some brain dead software (Plesk) that insists on | FreeBSD 5.3, while it will work just fine on 5.5 and even 6. I am |

Re: Changing release version on source

2006-03-09 Thread Henri Hennebert
Quoting Mike Jakubik [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Glenn Dawson wrote: At 12:06 PM 3/8/2006, you wrote: Does anyone know how to change the release version of the source code? I have some brain dead software (Plesk) that insists on FreeBSD 5.3, while it will work just fine on 5.5 and even 6. I am

Re: Changing release version on source

2006-03-09 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 08:56:58AM +0100, Henri Hennebert wrote: Quoting Mike Jakubik [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Glenn Dawson wrote: At 12:06 PM 3/8/2006, you wrote: Does anyone know how to change the release version of the source code? I have some brain dead software (Plesk) that insists on

Re: Changing release version on source

2006-03-09 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 03:04:55 -0500 Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It already supports this, see the manpage. The software may not be using uname(1) to determine kernel version though. ah, that is interesting. I didn't know about that one. Thanks for enlightening me. -- Regards,

Changing release version on source

2006-03-08 Thread Mike Jakubik
Does anyone know how to change the release version of the source code? I have some brain dead software (Plesk) that insists on FreeBSD 5.3, while it will work just fine on 5.5 and even 6. I am wondering i can change the version of RELENG_5 code so that this software will think its 5.3-R and

Re: Changing release version on source

2006-03-08 Thread Scot Hetzel
On 3/8/06, Mike Jakubik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how to change the release version of the source code? I have some brain dead software (Plesk) that insists on FreeBSD 5.3, while it will work just fine on 5.5 and even 6. I am wondering i can change the version of RELENG_5 code

Re: Changing release version on source

2006-03-08 Thread Mike Jakubik
Scot Hetzel wrote: On 3/8/06, Mike Jakubik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how to change the release version of the source code? I have some brain dead software (Plesk) that insists on FreeBSD 5.3, while it will work just fine on 5.5 and even 6. I am wondering i can change the

Re: Changing release version on source

2006-03-08 Thread Mike Jakubik
Glenn Dawson wrote: At 12:06 PM 3/8/2006, you wrote: Does anyone know how to change the release version of the source code? I have some brain dead software (Plesk) that insists on FreeBSD 5.3, while it will work just fine on 5.5 and even 6. I am wondering i can change the version of RELENG_5

Re: Changing release version on source

2006-03-08 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 12:25 PM 3/8/2006, Mike Jakubik wrote: Glenn Dawson wrote: At 12:06 PM 3/8/2006, you wrote: Does anyone know how to change the release version of the source code? I have some brain dead software (Plesk) that insists on FreeBSD 5.3, while it will work just fine on 5.5 and even 6. I am

Re: Changing release version on source

2006-03-08 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
If the software you're using gets the version in the same manner as uname, then all you should need is a new kernel. Or maybe just LD_PRELOAD a replacement for uname() that fakes out the release information? --lyndon ___