Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 16:02:00 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: "Anders N." <wicked@baot.se> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn revision in uname Message-ID: <44txrnqbav.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> In-Reply-To: <20121215194427.GA19347@baot.se> (Anders N.'s message of "Sat, 15 Dec 2012 19:44:27 %2B0000") References: <20121215194427.GA19347@baot.se>
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"Anders N." <wicked@baot.se> writes: > Hi. I've noticed in my "uname -a" on 9.1-RELEASE there is "r243826." > This is on a system that upgraded from 9.1-RC3 using freebsd-update > (binary). On another system, upgraded from 9.0-RELEASE via > freebsd-update (source), there is nothing at all and uname -a looks > normal. Two other people I asked have r243825 (installed from ISO) and > r243872 (upgraded from svn). > > They're all 9.1-RELEASE, shouldn't they be the same, final version? As I understand it, the revision ID refers to the whole repository, not just a branch. So if you do your own svn checkout tomorrow, you'll get yet another revision number, even though the files will (probably) be completely identical to what you checked out yesterday -- ongoing commits to HEAD will keep kicking the revision number up. There is work going on to make system builds completely, bit-for-bit, repeatable, but that will presumably mean getting rid of this revision number information, not making it consistent.
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