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Date:      Mon, 15 Jan 2007 22:00:51 +0200
From:      Alexander Mogilny <sg@sg.org.ua>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>
Subject:   Re: uname question after update
Message-ID:  <C23B8285-6401-47F0-B09C-741B8CD8BB39@sg.org.ua>
In-Reply-To: <45ABD978.7000407@u.washington.edu>
References:  <45ABC9DF.6040905@chapman.edu> <7606A8AF-B952-4945-9B2D-9CEF1F57424C@mac.com> <45ABD978.7000407@u.washington.edu>

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On 15 =D1=8F=D0=BD=D0=B2. 2007, at 21:43, Garrett Cooper wrote:

> Chuck Swiger wrote:
>> On Jan 15, 2007, at 10:37 AM, Jay Chandler wrote:
>>> FreeBSD box1.mydomain.com 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri =20=

>>> Jan 12 20:01:29 PST 2007     root@box1.mydomain.com:/usr/obj/usr/=20
>>> src/sys/SMP  i386
>>> FreeBSD box2.mydomain.com 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #4: Sat =20=

>>> Jan 13 15:40:40 PST 2007     root@box2.chapman.edu:/usr/obj/usr/=20
>>> src/sys/SMP  i386
>>>
>>> What does the #0 / #4 mean?
>>
>> The number of times you have rebuilt the kernel.
>>
>> (This number gets reset when the OS version gets bumped, I believe.)
>>
>> ---Chuck
>
> Hmm.. that's a new 'feature'. Can that be disabled in any way?

This is not a 'new' feature. This was so for very long time. You can =20
also reset the
number by cleaning out /usr/obj directory.

Version file vers.c is generated by src/sys/conf/newvers.sh script.

You can hack this script for it not to increase kernel number.

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