* Donald Brown (djbxapps at yahoo.com) wrote:
> Frequently project status updates have a comment such as the following
> excerpt:
>
> vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
> A. Changes since 20051103
>
> - merged with Solaris Nevada build 27
> - notable new features in 27:
> ...
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> or like this similar reference to OpenSolaris:
> vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
>
> Note: if this is your first OpenSolaris installation, you must first
> install Solaris Express - Community Release Build 16 or later before
> installing OpenSolaris. Either an initial install or an upgrade to
> Build 16 will work, provided you use the Entire Distribution
> metacluster.
> ...
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Does anyone know where to find build number for a particular OS
> release?
>
> I've installed 2009.06, but there has to be finer granularity
> information available.
On my build 130 box:
$ cat /etc/release
OpenSolaris Development snv_130 X86
Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
Assembled 18 December 2009
or:
$ uname -v
snv_130
Cheers,
--
Glenn
