From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jul 16 20:13:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from odin.egate.net (as2.dm.egate.net [216.235.1.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0CBF37B93D for ; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 20:13:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from buff@pobox.com) Received: from localhost (buff@localhost) by odin.egate.net (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA55998 for ; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 23:13:37 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: odin.egate.net: buff owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 23:13:35 -0400 (EDT) From: William Denton X-Sender: buff@odin.egate.net To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Kernel build numbers and kernel-building methods Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG After all the recent chat following that heads-up about how to build a world, I gave it a shot and rebuilt my system, gave the buildkernel and installkernel a KERNEL=MYCROFT setting, and adjusted /boot/loader.conf so it'd load /MYCROFT. All went well, but I noticed that the kernel build number reported by uname had changed. It said "FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE #0," while the number had been above 0 before. I rebuilt the system today and it stayed at 0, but then I recompiled the kernel alone (the old way) and now it says "FreeBSD 4.1-RC #6." Does compiling a kernel with make buildkernel not increment this number? If not, shouldn't it? Bill -- William Denton : Toronto, Canada : http://www.miskatonic.org/ : Caveat lector. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message