Re: uname -v does not report an n-number

On Wed, Aug 20, 2025 at 04:08:04PM +0000, Marcin Cieslak wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Aug 2025, bob prohaska wrote:
> 
> > I've an old Pi2 v1.1 which has been tracking -current for some time.
> > 
> > uname -v reports
> > bob@www:/usr/src % uname -v
> > FreeBSD 15.0-PRERELEASE #100 main-325e0b4c1a68: Mon Aug 18 15:23:41 PDT 2025     bob@www.zefox.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/arm.armv7/sys/GENERIC
> > bob@www:/usr/src %
> > 
> > Can the older machine be persuaded to display the sequence number?
> > Obviously I could reinstall, but I'm curious to see how long the
> > original installation can last.
> > 
> > Thanks for reading,
> > 
> > bob prohaska
> 
> On the machine where you build your kernel for "www":
> 
> git -C /usr/src rev-parse --is-shallow-repository
> 
> If your repository is shallow, it will not get an "n" number.
> 
That's the problem, the reply is "true". 

> Whether having this is worth extra gigabytes on disk (git counts the number
> of commits "since the beginning"), it's up to you.

The machine has only a 32GB disk, df reports:
Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/da0s2a  35532636 11410120 21279908    35%    /
devfs               1        0        1     0%    /dev
/dev/da0s1      51088    17348    33740    34%    /boot/msdos
so it appears I have about 20 GB available. IIRC it's possible
to "set a depth", could it be set to some small number, like
1, 2 or maybe 3, so I get the N-number without all the baggage?

Thanks for writing!

bob prohaska

> If you convert the repository to have all the commits, you need to rebuild the kernel.

 
> Marcin