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Re: FireFox versions for NETBSD-HEAD



On Fri, 19 Nov 2021, Todd Gruhn wrote:

'uname -s' gives 'NetBSD'  (is that even correct?)

Language can be so tricky. In the sense of being a "legal" argument to 'uname,' 's' is correct (it's listed in uname's manpage synopsis), but I meant to type 'uname -a' so that the version number would print..

I dont like to merely state "NetBSD-HEAD" that could be the latest release from yesterday. The dates matter. It was a release from today (19 Novemver 2021)

Perhaps someone with knowledge of the matter -- I don't fit that description -- will help us out, but I don't think of 'HEAD" as a "release.' I think of HEAD as synonymous with 'current,' and reserve the term 'release' for sets of files officially titled using that word.

Yes, I'm like this at home; just ask my wife.

9-)

Thank you.

--
"...that there is no getting away from the central position of the individual I believe anyone can see for himself merely by observing that the individual does not regard the following to be a senseless question: "Under what conditions would you draw the conclusion that everyone in the world except yourself had gone crazy?"

Percy Bridgman _The Nature of Physical Theory_
                            (1936)


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