In the last episode (Apr 15), Pieter de Goeje said:
> On Sunday 15 April 2007, Dan Nelson wrote:
> > In the last episode (Apr 15), Roger Olofsson said:
> > > Yesterday I csup:ed 2 machines to latest using same cvsup-server
> > > for both. After the standard procedure of doing:
> > >
> > > make buildworld
> > > make buildkernel
> > > make installkernel
> > > reboot
> > > make installworld
> > >
> > > ..on both machines, one says 'FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #2' and the other says
> > > 'FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #6'.
> > >
> > > What does the number after the #-sign mean?
> >
> > It's the number of times you have rebuilt your kernel. The value is
> > stored in /usr/src/sys/<arch>/<kernelname>/version.
>
> I think you meant /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/<kernelname>/version. If you
> wipe /usr/obj, the number will be reset.
Actually, I meant /usr/src/sys/<arch>/compile/<kernelname>/version
since I still build my kernels the "old" way. It also means that the
version file never gets deleted. After ~10 years on this filesystem,
I'm up to #434 :)
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Dan Nelson
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