Re: Dates in boot loaders on !x86

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 04:37:50PM -0500, der Mouse wrote:
> > Just because you build any branch, including current, 3 month ago,
> > doesn't say much about the sources.
> 
> True.  What I use the timestamp for (when I use it at all, that is) is
> answering "is the bootloader (or whatever) I'm getting the one I just
> built and think I installed, or did something go wrong?".  The
> difference between ten minutes old and two weeks old is important; the
> difference between two weeks old and six months old is not.

BTW, the kernel version is still included, so at least on -current you
can normally detect the case of "pretty recent" and "a few month old"
from that as well.

Joerg