display r number

[Matthew Seaman]

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On 24/04/2010 16:02:49, AN wrote:
> I recently saw the following in a post to the list,  "8.0-STABLE FreeBSD
> 8.0-STABLE #2 r207058M:".  My question is how do you get the r number to
> display?  My uname -a says:"8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #2: Sat Apr 17
> 20:56:53".  Is there a command line option, or a configuration setting
> somewhere?

If you get your kernel+system sources via cvsup then you won't be able
to see the Subversion revision number -- CVS overwrites the $FreeBSD$
and similar tags in the source code when sources are imported from SVN
to CVS.  I believe the same applies to freebsd-update, although in that
case, you can only get the -RELEASE branches.

Presumably if you were to check out 8-Stable directly from a SVN server,
you would see the global version.  However, unless you are a FreeBSD
committer, checking sources out of SVN is (I believe) discouraged in
order to reduce the load on the SVN servers.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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