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From: Roman Kurakin <rik@inse.ru>
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Subject: Re: How to change kernel version tag?
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Yuan, Jue wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> Could I change the kernel version tag manually? say, I have a kernel which is 
> 7.0-CUREENT, but for some reasons I wanna it be something like 6.1-RELEASE, 
> while the kernel itself does't change from 7.0-CURRENT to 6.1-RELEASE. All I 
> want is the change of tag. For example, if this works, then when I 
> type "uname -a" in console, I would get "6.1-RELEASE ..." instead 
> of "7.0-CURRENT ...".
>   
You jast want to change the uname output, or some software checks kernel 
version?

rik
> I guess some config files in src/sys/ could take care of this. But I cannot 
> find it out. Anybody knows how to get this job done?
>
> Any ideas are really appreciated. :-)
>
> BTW: I am not in this list. So if you reply, please CC a copy to me. Thanks.
>
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