Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 11:10:41 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Pieter de Goeje <pieter@degoeje.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Roger Olofsson <raggen@passagen.se> Subject: Re: What's the #-number from uname -a? Message-ID: <20070415161041.GB43673@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <200704151432.33252.pieter@degoeje.nl> References: <4621D0EF.9020802@passagen.se> <20070415072927.GA43673@dan.emsphone.com> <200704151432.33252.pieter@degoeje.nl>
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In the last episode (Apr 15), Pieter de Goeje said: > On Sunday 15 April 2007, Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (Apr 15), Roger Olofsson said: > > > Yesterday I csup:ed 2 machines to latest using same cvsup-server > > > for both. After the standard procedure of doing: > > > > > > make buildworld > > > make buildkernel > > > make installkernel > > > reboot > > > make installworld > > > > > > ..on both machines, one says 'FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #2' and the other says > > > 'FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #6'. > > > > > > What does the number after the #-sign mean? > > > > It's the number of times you have rebuilt your kernel. The value is > > stored in /usr/src/sys/<arch>/<kernelname>/version. > > I think you meant /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/<kernelname>/version. If you > wipe /usr/obj, the number will be reset. Actually, I meant /usr/src/sys/<arch>/compile/<kernelname>/version since I still build my kernels the "old" way. It also means that the version file never gets deleted. After ~10 years on this filesystem, I'm up to #434 :) -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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