uname question after update

[Alexander Mogilny]

On 15 янв. 2007, at 21:43, Garrett Cooper wrote:

> Chuck Swiger wrote:
>> On Jan 15, 2007, at 10:37 AM, Jay Chandler wrote:
>>> FreeBSD box1.mydomain.com 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri  
>>> Jan 12 20:01:29 PST 2007     root at box1.mydomain.com:/usr/obj/usr/ 
>>> src/sys/SMP  i386
>>> FreeBSD box2.mydomain.com 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #4: Sat  
>>> Jan 13 15:40:40 PST 2007     root at box2.chapman.edu:/usr/obj/usr/ 
>>> src/sys/SMP  i386
>>>
>>> What does the #0 / #4 mean?
>>
>> 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 is not a 'new' feature. This was so for very long time. You can  
also reset the
number by cleaning out /usr/obj directory.

Version file vers.c is generated by src/sys/conf/newvers.sh script.

You can hack this script for it not to increase kernel number.

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