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Re: Dates in boot loaders on !x86



On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 09:33:57PM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 08:59:15PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > That's what the version number is supposed to tell you.
> 
> Just thinking out loud: could we make the embedded date conditional
> on some /etc/mk.conf variable, unset for standard builds?

Yeah that would be nice because the version number gets only changed
when a new feature was added but that does not tell you when something
else in the source code was modified which was nothing major but could
case problems.

Bernd



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