David Demelier <demelier.da...@gmail.com> writes: > > 2012/12/15 Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org> > >> "Anders N." <wic...@baot.se> writes: >> >> > Hi. I've noticed in my "uname -a" on 9.1-RELEASE there is "r243826." >> > This is on a system that upgraded from 9.1-RC3 using freebsd-update >> > (binary). On another system, upgraded from 9.0-RELEASE via >> > freebsd-update (source), there is nothing at all and uname -a looks >> > normal. Two other people I asked have r243825 (installed from ISO) and >> > r243872 (upgraded from svn). >> > >> > They're all 9.1-RELEASE, shouldn't they be the same, final version? >> >> As I understand it, the revision ID refers to the whole repository, not >> just a branch. So if you do your own svn checkout tomorrow, you'll get >> yet another revision number, even though the files will (probably) be >> completely identical to what you checked out yesterday -- ongoing >> commits to HEAD will keep kicking the revision number up. >> >> There is work going on to make system builds completely, bit-for-bit, >> repeatable, but that will presumably mean getting rid of this revision >> number information, not making it consistent.
> I hope it will be removed soon, it pollutes the uname -a output. It's easy enough to add a stage in the kernel build to remove it if you don't like it, but in most source-update environments it's a very valuable piece of information. Even if a reproduceable-build infrastructure is put in place, it would have to be optional because this information is necessary in heterogeneous environments. I don't know that anyone's working on it the moment -- I *thought* I'd read something about it recently, but I can't find any reference to such an effort this year. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
