[arch-general] arch-release

[Jan de Groot]

On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 10:40 +0200, Gerhard Brauer wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 26.08.2009, 09:56 +0200 schrieb Jan de Groot:
> 
> > As Arch is a rolling release system, we decided to remove the file. But
> > as tools use this file to identify Arch systems, we decided to keep the
> > file, but make it empty.
> > 
> > 2009.08 won't be 2009.08 as soon as you run pacman -Syu ;)
> 
> To far this we could maybe add a function to pacman, so that after every
> -Syu the unixtime gets written to this file.
> This would give us:
> * IMHO the highest version/release number a software/distribution ever
>   have.
> * The individual content of this file then represent the nature of a
>   rolling release.
> 
> Ok, just kidding ;-)

And within 28 years it will overflow so we have a negative version
number :P