Re: How to change kernel version?

On Friday 25 August 2006 23:14, LI Xin wrote:
> Yuan, Jue wrote:
> > Hi all.
> >
> > Could I change the kernel version tag manually? say, I have a kernel
> > which is 7.0-CUREENT, but for some reasons I wanna it be something like
> > 6.1-RELEASE, while the kernel itself does't change from 7.0-CURRENT to
> > 6.1-RELEASE. All I want is the change of tag. For example, if this works,
> > then when I type "uname -a" in console, I would get "6.1-RELEASE ..."
> > instead of "7.0-CURRENT ...".
> >
> > I guess some config files in src/sys/ could take care of this. But I
> > cannot find it out. Anybody knows how to get this job done?
> >
> > Any ideas are really appreciated. :-)
> >
> > BTW: I am not in this list. So if you reply, please CC a copy to me.
> > Thanks.
>
> Changing the represented release name is not a generally wise idea.  You
> may also want to modify sys/sys/param.h, consult the FreeBSD Porters'
> Handbook for more details.
>
> If you just want to cheat uname(1) and/or sysctl(8), perhaps renaming
> them to _uname and _sysctl and use some sort of _uname $_at_ | sed -e
> s/`_uname -r`/6.1-RELEASE/g trick will do.  This also applies to the
> rc.d motd script, which uses uname(1) to determine the current FreeBSD
> version.  This trick is less intrusive, but have no effect if your
> application read the version themselves, e.g. the build process of
> python, etc.
>
Thanks for this enlightment. Very helpful :-)

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