[arch-general] arch-release

Dieter Plaetinck dieter at plaetinck.be
Wed Aug 26 08:52:08 UTC 2009


On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:45:33 +0200
Jan de Groot <jan at jgc.homeip.net> wrote:

> 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
> 

maybe we should put the output of `pacman -Q | sha1sum` in /etc/arch-release. git style! :P

Dieter


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