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Subject: Re: display r number
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On 04/24/10 11:02, AN wrote:
> I recently saw the following in a post to the list,  "8.0-STABLE FreeBSD
> 8.0-STABLE #2 r207058M:".  My question is how do you get the r number to
> display?  My uname -a says:"8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #2: Sat Apr 17
> 20:56:53".  Is there a command line option, or a configuration setting
> somewhere?

This indicates the type of source-code repository in use.

If you use cvsup or csup, you get the result you see.

If you use a subversion repository from which to build, you get the
revision number (plus an 'M', if there are local changes applied),

	imb
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