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Date:      Fri, 6 Mar 2009 15:52:31 -0500
From:      "Ivan \"Rambius\" Ivanov" <rambiusparkisanius@gmail.com>
To:        Ian Bonnycastle <ibonny@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How do I determine the FreeBSD "world" revision/version?
Message-ID:  <89ce7f740903061252i2359af83v1cf612be28afad16@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <bdee1eb40903061212h3ea2011erfd85cd0c0cef40fe@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <bdee1eb40903061212h3ea2011erfd85cd0c0cef40fe@mail.gmail.com>

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Hello,

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Ian Bonnycastle <ibonny@gmail.com> wrote:
> If I have a
> particular FreeBSD system, and know its a modified kernel, how can I tell
> what base was originally on it?
Actually, why would you want to know this and how do you define base?

I have a laptop on which I installed years ago FreeBSD 5.5. Then I
upgraded the sources using cvsup to 6.0 and rebuilt it, than again to
6.1, 6.2 and up to 7.1. So what is the base in this case?

Regards
Rambius

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