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Date:      Sun, 30 Jul 2000 10:37:12 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Cc:        Joe McGuckin <joe@via.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Where is version # in source code?
Message-ID:  <20000730103711.A65178@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000728192610.N17222@fw.wintelcom.net>; from bright@wintelcom.net on Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 07:26:10PM -0700
References:  <200007290211.TAA70370@monk.via.net> <20000728192610.N17222@fw.wintelcom.net>

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On Friday, 28 July 2000 at 19:26:10 -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> * Joe McGuckin <joe@via.net> [000728 19:11] wrote:
>>
>> What file has the version string as reported by uname?
>
> I'm pretty sure src/sys/conf/newvers.sh is responsible for that,
> be careful changing it will cause a lot of problems compiling things
> at it will break a lot of 'configure' scripts and other utilities
> that rely on uname spitting out something it knows about.

The version string is in newvers.sh.  The version number is in
/sys/compile/<MYKERNEL>/version.  newvers.sh updates it on each build.

Greg
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