Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 23:30:34 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org> To: Duane Whitty <duane@greenmeadow.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [OT] What's in a name? FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #1 Message-ID: <20060324232138.I62079@tripel.monochrome.org> In-Reply-To: <4424B944.9020909@greenmeadow.ca> References: <4424B944.9020909@greenmeadow.ca>
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On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Duane Whitty wrote: > I recently built 6-STABLE and I was wondering what > the #0 and #1 refer to in the uname > > FreeBSD dwpc.dwlabs.ca 6.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #1: Fri > Mar 24 19:34:58 AST 2006 > root@dwpc.dwlabs.ca:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DWPC-200603230410 i386 I think that refers to the number of times you've (re)built the kernel. So a fresh install will be #0, but it looks like you've changed your configuration and rebuilt the kernel once since then. FreeBSD seems to need far less kernel config tinkering now than it used to. I recall doing a lot of kernel builds back in the 2.2.x days just to make my hardware useable (or maybe I was dinking with it "just because"). Anyway, the # number would increment with each kernel build/install. -- Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ]
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