[arch-general] arch-release

[Gerhard Brauer]

Am Mittwoch, den 26.08.2009, 10:45 +0200 schrieb Jan de Groot:
> On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 10:40 +0200, Gerhard Brauer wrote:
> > 
> > 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

I'm sure we will find a solution until this happens.
Maybe we make 2037 our first "Release", so we would have an offset to
add... ;-)

Gerhard