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Date:      Thu, 12 Jan 2006 13:58:59 +0100 (CET)
From:      Jaap Boender <jaapb@kerguelen.org>
To:        Roberto Nunnari <roberto.nunnari@supsi.ch>
Cc:        "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: patches and uname -a
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.4.63.0601121357220.26097@courbet.kerguelen.org>
In-Reply-To: <43C64C52.9020209@supsi.ch>
References:  <43C64C52.9020209@supsi.ch>

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On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Roberto Nunnari wrote:

> Does anybody know how can you make uname report the
> real version? What if you recompile the kernel after
> patching the system? Would that do the trick?

As far as I know, uname gets the version information from the kernel.
So yes, if you recompile the kernel, you should be able to get the right
version displayed.

Yours,

   Jaap Boender



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