Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 12:02:50 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: uname question after update Message-ID: <45ABDDEA.5010308@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <54931407-45A4-4CA3-A883-C3DCCBB67B18@mac.com> References: <45ABC9DF.6040905@chapman.edu> <7606A8AF-B952-4945-9B2D-9CEF1F57424C@mac.com> <45ABD978.7000407@u.washington.edu> <54931407-45A4-4CA3-A883-C3DCCBB67B18@mac.com>
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Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Jan 15, 2007, at 11:43 AM, Garrett Cooper wrote: >>> 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 feature, whatever you might think of it, isn't new. :-) > > But yes, it could be disabled; see /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh and > the number kept in /usr/obj/usr/src/include/version. Delete > /usr/obj/usr/src/include/version between kernel recompiles and you > will always get a version # of 0. > > ---Chuck > Oh, wait. I thought that the 2 version strings were concatenated, but after looking at the original post the guy noted that uname -a was invoked on 2 different machines. Duh. -Garrett
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