Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 23:19:18 -0600 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> 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: <d7195cff0603242119u66407bb9k3381cfa83474ebaf@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4424CA3C.4000602@greenmeadow.ca> References: <4424B944.9020909@greenmeadow.ca> <20060324232138.I62079@tripel.monochrome.org> <4424CA3C.4000602@greenmeadow.ca>
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On 3/24/06, Duane Whitty <duane@greenmeadow.ca> wrote: > 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. . . . > 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 d= id > was checked out the RELENG_6 code from my local repository for m,y build. > I kept my kernel config from my last build. If you delete the files in /usr/obj/usr/src/sys* it should revert to #0 on the next build. The reason changing config files works is that it creates a new kernel build directory with the name of the new kernel config file. *Asumming you use the default locations. -- --
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