From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 25 04:43:30 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA02916A41F for ; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 04:43:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from duane@greenmeadow.ca) Received: from smtpout.eastlink.ca (smtpout.eastlink.ca [24.222.0.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5084D43D45 for ; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 04:43:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from duane@greenmeadow.ca) Received: from ip04.eastlink.ca ([24.222.10.20]) by mta01.eastlink.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-4.03 (built Sep 22 2005)) with ESMTP id <0IWO006TD2GJ1K51@mta01.eastlink.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 00:43:31 -0400 (AST) Received: from blk-224-199-230.eastlink.ca (HELO [192.168.0.103]) ([24.224.199.230]) by ip04.eastlink.ca with ESMTP; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 00:43:30 -0400 Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 00:42:36 -0400 From: Duane Whitty In-reply-to: <20060324232138.I62079@tripel.monochrome.org> To: Chris Hill Message-id: <4424CA3C.4000602@greenmeadow.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-BrightmailFiltered: true X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAA+k= References: <4424B944.9020909@greenmeadow.ca> <20060324232138.I62079@tripel.monochrome.org> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060309) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [OT] What's in a name? FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 04:43:30 -0000 Chris Hill wrote: > 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 <|> ] Hi, Yeah, that makes sense. Usually I make a new kernel config file for each time I rebuild because I've changed something. This time however all I did was checked out the RELENG_6 code from my local repository for m,y build. I kept my kernel config from my last build. Thanks for the info --Duane