Saturday, March 27, 2021

Re: shells/zsh: Keep $OSTYPE up to date

Matthew Martin:

> A while back [1] it was noted zsh's $OSTYPE is out of sync with the OS
> version.
>
> 1: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=160940571013139&w=2

I don't think there's a problem to solve.

OSTYPE describes the operating system this instance of zsh (or bash)
was compiled on. There are all sorts of programs that include this
information, e.g. mutt -v.

If pkg_add hasn't updated the package across a x.y -> x.y+1
increment, that suggests that there has been no API change.

--
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de

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