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Date:      Sat, 7 Mar 2009 08:15:57 +0100
From:      Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To:        Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
Cc:        Ian Bonnycastle <ibonny@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How do I determine the FreeBSD "world" revision/version?
Message-ID:  <20090307081557.53795235.freebsd@edvax.de>
In-Reply-To: <20090306205402.GA59135@owl.midgard.homeip.net>
References:  <bdee1eb40903061212h3ea2011erfd85cd0c0cef40fe@mail.gmail.com> <20090306205402.GA59135@owl.midgard.homeip.net>

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Just an addition:

On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 21:54:02 +0100, Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> wrote:
> No, there is no such information.  The version stored in the kernel applies
> to both kernel and userland.

This is correct for the sources which usually are updated both
(running "make update" in /usr/src).



> If you do 'mix-and-match' where different parts of your system come from
> different versions of FreeBSD you will have to keep track of this yourself.

Such differences can occur if you
	1st - make update
	2nd - build and install world and kernel
	3rd - make update again
	4th - build and install kernel only

It can as well happen if you "make install" for a certain part of
the OS (from the /usr/src tree) only.



An indication of the current version of any part of the OS or the
kernel can be obtained from the $FreeBSD$ CVS tag on a per-file
basis. But note that these don't refer to a RELEASE or STABLE
notation.



-- 
Polytropon
>From Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...



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