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Old 9th January 2013
ocicat ocicat is offline
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Final comment of the differences between -release & -current flavors.

Determining which flavor of OpenBSD is installed can be found by looking at the output of:

$ sysctl kern.version

For users of -current, output will be similar to the following (I compile my own releases, hence the unfamiliar domain name...)::
Code:
$ sysctrl kern.version
kern.version=OpenBSD 5.2-current (GENERIC.MP) #107: Sat Nov 24 23:05:33 CST 2012
    webmaster@build.pricklyfish.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC.MP

$
For those who build -stable, "-current" (in the highlighted output above...) will be replaced with "-stable". Those who are running -release will see nothing in the kern.version output which specifies the flavor installed.

Last edited by ocicat; 10th January 2013 at 05:17 AM. Reason: clarity
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