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Date:      Thu, 12 Jan 2006 14:18:58 -0600
From:      "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com>
To:        Roberto Nunnari <roberto.nunnari@supsi.ch>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: {Spam?} Re: patches and uname -a
Message-ID:  <d7195cff0601121218n687e6fefya13b3e8796794c2c@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <43C6B637.9050006@supsi.ch>
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On 1/12/06, Roberto Nunnari <roberto.nunnari@supsi.ch> wrote:
>
> Ceri Davies wrote:
>
> > That would work, but if you don't already have that string then there i=
s
> > a possibility that you don't have all the patches, so please only chang=
e
> > it if you are %100 sure that you have.  I cannot stress that enough.
>
> I checked the patches (cpio.patch ee.patch texindex5x.patch) and none
> of them tries to change src/sys/conf/newvers.sh nor src/UPDATING
>
> So.. as I didn't find any other patches that are post p23, I edited
> newvers.sh, build a new kernel and rebooted. uname -r is now happy.
>
> If you had set it to
TYPE=3D"FreeBSD"
REVISION=3D"9.1"
BRANCH=3D"STALE"
You could run software from the future (some time in late 2009, I believe).



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