uname question

[Sam9978]

I was just curious as to why in FreeBSD 12 "uname -v" shows less information than it used to? This also affects the default info show in motd.

For example:

FreeBSD 12

6:/home/user # uname -v
FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE-p4 RACK6

FreeBSD 11

7:/home/user # uname -v
FreeBSD 11.3-RELEASE-p8 #5: Tue Apr 21 18:02:57 UTC 2020     user@7.example.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/RACK7

Obviously not a big deal but was just wondering why the change and why show less info?

 

[getopt]

Looks like your output has a local reason as here on FreeBSD 12.1 I get a full string like yours on 11.3.

 

[Sam9978]

That makes sense. Where would that even be set? This is a brand new install.

 

[Jose]

My output is similar to Sam's. I use the stock GENERIC kernel, though.

 

[gpw928]

When you build a kernel, one of the last things to be done by the Makefile is to run the script:

MAKE=make sh /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh MYKERNEL

This creates the file /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL/vers.c.

This gets compiled into the kernel, and is used to populate the sysctl(3) mibs used by uname(1).

 

[SirDice]

I was just curious as to why in FreeBSD 12 "uname -v" shows less information than it used to?

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