On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 04:24:37PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > Well, we derive the version to include from the version file. This is > controlled by a central script. What about adding support to expand > $DATE$ or some other magic version string, if it is the last in the > version file? If you are actively developing, you can add that to the > version file and hopefully remember to replace it with a proper version > entry before commit.
That's unnecessarily complicated. There's prior art for this: NetBSD tanaqui 5.99.41 NetBSD 5.99.41 (TANAQUI) #32: Wed Dec 1 01:20:02 EST 2010 dholland@tanaqui:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/TANAQUI i386 ^^^ Wouldn't be very hard to do the same for bootloaders. -- David A. Holland dholl...@netbsd.org