On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:45:33 +0200 Jan de Groot <jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > maybe we should put the output of `pacman -Q | sha1sum` in /etc/arch-release. git style! :P Dieter
