Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 00:42:36 -0400 From: Duane Whitty <duane@greenmeadow.ca> To: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [OT] What's in a name? FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #1 Message-ID: <4424CA3C.4000602@greenmeadow.ca> In-Reply-To: <20060324232138.I62079@tripel.monochrome.org> References: <4424B944.9020909@greenmeadow.ca> <20060324232138.I62079@tripel.monochrome.org>
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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
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