Re: FireFox versions for NETBSD-HEAD

[Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4%gmail.com@localhost>]

ATM you get:

# uname -a
NetBSD ymir 9.99.92 NetBSD 9.99.92 (GENERIC) #15: Fri Nov 19 23:26:42
GMT 2021  sysbuild@ymir:/home/sysbuild/amd64/obj/home/sysbuild/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC
amd64
# pkg_info firefox
Information for firefox-94.0.1:
...



On Sat, 20 Nov 2021 at 00:48, Bob Bernstein <poobah%ruptured-duck.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> 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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