[OT] What's in a name? FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #1

[Chris Hill]

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 at 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.

FreeBSD seems to need far less kernel config tinkering now than it used 
to. I recall doing a lot of kernel builds back in the 2.2.x days just to 
make my hardware useable (or maybe I was dinking with it "just 
because"). Anyway, the # number would increment with each kernel 
build/install.

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