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
