Binaries or Source?

dougs

dougs

I have this one system running 9.0-RELEASE and I cannot determine whether it was installed/upgraded using binaries or was compiled from source. It has subversion installed and svn info /usr/src dumps info as follows:
Code: 
aries-root@~/bin# svn info /usr/src
Path: /usr/src
Working Copy Root Path: /usr/src
URL: svn://svn0.us-west.freebsd.org/base/releng/9.0
Repository Root: svn://svn0.us-west.freebsd.org/base
Repository UUID: ccf9f872-aa2e-dd11-9fc8-001c23d0bc1f
Revision: 243630
Node Kind: directory
Schedule: normal
Last Changed Author: simon
Last Changed Rev: 243417
Last Changed Date: 2012-11-22 14:52:15 -0800 (Thu, 22 Nov 2012)

aries-root@~/bin#

but I do seem to recall going with binaries once I discovered that the ZFS configuration worked even with the binaries. But I can't be too sure.

What's the most accurate way to determine this?

~Doug
 
wblock@ said:
Look at the output of uname -a. It shows date and username.
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Code: 
aries-root@~/bin# uname -a
FreeBSD aries.dawnsign.com 9.0-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE-p4 #0 r240684: Thu Sep 20 18:37:37 PDT 2012     root@aries.dawnsign.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ARIES  i386
aries-root@~/bin#

So how do you know that it was updated viafreebsd-update or compiled? As root I can execute freebsd-update or compile. What does the date refer to? The day the system was last updated?

~Doug
 
So it would be safe to say that by using freebsd-update, you end up always using the GENERIC kernel?
 
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