On Nov 9, 2011 5:02 PM, "Neil Bothwick" <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > > On Wed, 9 Nov 2011 09:44:00 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > Anyways, back to topic: I experiment a lot with the kernels, so I > > timestamp them all, and my grub menu lists all kernels found in /boot, > > complete with their respective timestamps. > > The kernel build scripts can do this for you automatically, search for > LOCALVERSION. It's not a timestamp but an incrementing counter. If I need > to know the exact date and time the kernel was built, I can always us > ls -l :) >
I personally prefer timestamps, because my changelogs all have timestamps in their name. The reason is that I may sometimes have to revisit (edit) a changelog; the file's modification time gets changed, but the timestamp stays :-) Rgds,
