Re: display r number

On 24/04/2010 16:49:53, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 03:02:49PM +0000, 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?
> 
> Those people are using freebsd-update(8).  You're not.  Don't worry
> about it.  
> 

Not to get 8-Stable they aren't.  freebsd-update(8) will get you
8.0-RELEASE.  Checking out of subversion causes the observed effect.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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