{Spam?} Re: patches and uname -a

[illoai at gmail.com]

On 1/12/06, Roberto Nunnari <roberto.nunnari at supsi.ch> wrote:
>
> Ceri Davies wrote:
>
> > That would work, but if you don't already have that string then there is
> > a possibility that you don't have all the patches, so please only change
> > it if you are %100 sure that you have.  I cannot stress that enough.
>
> I checked the patches (cpio.patch ee.patch texindex5x.patch) and none
> of them tries to change src/sys/conf/newvers.sh nor src/UPDATING
>
> So.. as I didn't find any other patches that are post p23, I edited
> newvers.sh, build a new kernel and rebooted. uname -r is now happy.
>
> If you had set it to
TYPE="FreeBSD"
REVISION="9.1"
BRANCH="STALE"
You could run software from the future (some time in late 2009, I believe).