Re: No date in "uname -a" anymore

[Claudius Hubig <debian_1305@chubig.net>]

Dear Markus,

Markus Schönhaber wrote:
> ~# uname -a
> Linux wheezy 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.41-2 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> ~# ls -l /boot/vm*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2833376 May 15 23:58 /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-amd64
> ~#
> 
> There is no date in the uname output anymore, which I could compare to
> the kernel image file's timestamp.

You are now supposed to compare the Debian package version reported
by uname (3.2.41-2 in the example above) against the one currently
installed (e.g. using dpkg -l). /proc/version still reports the build
time for me, though.

> doesn't sound convincing to me. As an administrator, I couldn't care
> less what source was used to build the kernel package installed.

As the source package used to build the kernel uniquely identifies the
kernel, you should only care about the source package version?
 
Best,

Claudius
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