Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 19:11:18 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: "Stephen P. Cravey" <clists@gotbrains.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Determining version of uninstalled kernel? Message-ID: <20041230031118.GA50520@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20041229210228.00b8e88d.clists@gotbrains.org> References: <20041229210228.00b8e88d.clists@gotbrains.org>
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--7AUc2qLy4jB3hD7Z Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 09:02:28PM -0600, Stephen P. Cravey wrote: > Is there a facility for determining the version of a kernel that has > been built but not installed? I am working on a script to pre-build new > versions of FreeBSD by checking newvers.conf against uname, but i would > also like to be able to verify that the version in /usr/obj is not the > same as in newvers.conf. Otherwise, my script would just continue to > rebuild everything needlessly. Try strings or ident. Kris --7AUc2qLy4jB3hD7Z Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFB03HVWry0BWjoQKURAoFnAKCWJOpMZ3NGjI9TxWY4a8XNR+TFpACg4BSs hIrlrI0ldOnVEo2OHqH80Ps= =/WtV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --7AUc2qLy4jB3hD7Z--
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