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

[illoai at gmail.com]

On 3/24/06, Duane Whitty <duane at greenmeadow.ca> wrote:
> 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.
. . .
> 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.

If you delete the files in /usr/obj/usr/src/sys* it should
revert to #0 on the next build.

The reason changing config files works is that it creates
a new kernel build directory with the name of the new
kernel config file.

*Asumming you use the default locations.

--
--