Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 16:51:49 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: AN <andy@neu.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: display r number Message-ID: <4BD31395.6070305@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.1.10.1004241455590.861@neu.net> References: <alpine.BSF.1.10.1004241455590.861@neu.net>
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On 24/04/2010 16:02:49, 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?
If you get your kernel+system sources via cvsup then you won't be able
to see the Subversion revision number -- CVS overwrites the $FreeBSD$
and similar tags in the source code when sources are imported from SVN
to CVS. I believe the same applies to freebsd-update, although in that
case, you can only get the -RELEASE branches.
Presumably if you were to check out 8-Stable directly from a SVN server,
you would see the global version. However, unless you are a FreeBSD
committer, checking sources out of SVN is (I believe) discouraged in
order to reduce the load on the SVN servers.
Cheers,
Matthew
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