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From: Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com>
To: AN <andy@neu.net>
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Subject: Re: display r number
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On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 03:02:49PM +0000, AN wrote:
> I recently saw the following in a post to the list,  "8.0-STABLE
> FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #2 r207058M:".  My question is how do you get the
> r number to display?  My uname -a says:"8.0-STABLE FreeBSD
> 8.0-STABLE #2: Sat Apr 17 20:56:53".  Is there a command line
> option, or a configuration setting somewhere?

Those people are using freebsd-update(8).  You're not.  Don't worry
about it.  :-)

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