How to change kernel version?

[Daniel Gerzo]

Hello Jue,

Friday, August 25, 2006, 2:00:07 PM, you wrote:

> Hi all.

> Could I change the kernel version tag manually? say, I have a kernel which is
> 7.0-CUREENT, but for some reasons I wanna it be something like 6.1-RELEASE,
> while the kernel itself does't change from 7.0-CURRENT to 6.1-RELEASE. All I
> want is the change of tag. For example, if this works, then when I 
> type "uname -a" in console, I would get "6.1-RELEASE ..." instead 
> of "7.0-CURRENT ...".

> I guess some config files in src/sys/ could take care of this. But I cannot
> find it out. Anybody knows how to get this job done?

It's src/sys/conf/newvers.sh

But I don't think it's a good idea to fake it ;-)

> Any ideas are really appreciated. :-)

> BTW: I am not in this list. So if you reply, please CC a copy to me. Thanks.


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