Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 14:32:32 +0200 From: Pieter de Goeje <pieter@degoeje.nl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>, Roger Olofsson <raggen@passagen.se> Subject: Re: What's the #-number from uname -a? Message-ID: <200704151432.33252.pieter@degoeje.nl> In-Reply-To: <20070415072927.GA43673@dan.emsphone.com> References: <4621D0EF.9020802@passagen.se> <20070415072927.GA43673@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Sunday 15 April 2007, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Apr 15), Roger Olofsson said: > > Yesterday I csup:ed 2 machines to latest using same cvsup-server for > > both. After the standard procedure of doing: > > > > make buildworld > > make buildkernel > > make installkernel > > reboot > > make installworld > > > > ..on both machines, one says 'FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #2' and the other says > > 'FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #6'. > > > > What does the number after the #-sign mean? > > It's the number of times you have rebuilt your kernel. The value is > stored in /usr/src/sys/<arch>/<kernelname>/version. I think you meant /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/<kernelname>/version. If you wipe /usr/obj, the number will be reset. Cheers, Pieter
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