uname question after update

Garrett Cooper youshi10 at u.washington.edu
Mon Jan 15 20:02:51 UTC 2007


Chuck Swiger wrote:
> On Jan 15, 2007, at 11:43 AM, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>>> The number of times you have rebuilt the kernel.
>>>
>>> (This number gets reset when the OS version gets bumped, I believe.)
>>>
>>> ---Chuck
>>
>> Hmm.. that's a new 'feature'. Can that be disabled in any way?
>
> This feature, whatever you might think of it, isn't new.  :-)
>
> But yes, it could be disabled; see /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh and 
> the number kept in /usr/obj/usr/src/include/version.  Delete 
> /usr/obj/usr/src/include/version between kernel recompiles and you 
> will always get a version # of 0.
>
> ---Chuck
>
Oh, wait. I thought that the 2 version strings were concatenated, but 
after looking at the original post the guy noted that uname -a was 
invoked on 2 different machines. Duh.
-Garrett


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