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

[Duane Whitty]

Chris Hill wrote:
> 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.
>
> -- 
> Chris Hill               chris at monochrome.org
> **                     [ Busy Expunging <|> ]
Hi,

Yeah, that makes sense.  Usually I make a new kernel config file for each
time I rebuild because I've changed something.  This time however all I did
was checked out the RELENG_6 code from my local repository for m,y build.
I kept my kernel config from my last build.

Thanks for the info

--Duane