What's the #-number from uname -a?
Dan Nelson
dnelson at allantgroup.com
Sun Apr 15 07:29:44 UTC 2007
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.
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Dan Nelson
dnelson at allantgroup.com
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