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Date:      Sat, 18 Apr 1998 10:35:00 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net>
To:        Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no>
Cc:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Quick Question re: Dmesg & Current Version
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980418103418.223D-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org>
In-Reply-To: <xzp67k7iclt.fsf@bilskirnir.ifi.uio.no>

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On 18 Apr 1998, Dag-Erling Coidan [iso-8859-1] Smørgrav wrote:

> Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> writes:
> > On Sat, 18 April 1998 at  2:32:18 +0100, Karl Pielorz wrote:
> > > In the dmesg for my system I get:
> > >
> > > FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT #5: Fri Apr 17 20:25:58 BST 1998
> > >
> > > What does the '#5' refer to? 
> > 
> > It's the version number.  Each time you build a kernel, the number is
> > incremented.  Look at the file /sys/compile/YOURKERNEL/version.
> 
> It is also reset to zero every time you run config, because
> /sys/compile/YOURKERNEL/version is deleted. I'm not sure if that's a
> bug or a feature... Maybe we could put (the|a) version number in
> /etc/YOURKERNEL.version so it is kept across config runs.

Well, it doesn't now on -current.  On -stable man config.

- alex

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