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[Joe Areeda <newsreply@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 04/13/2011 05:03 PM, Brian Murray wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 01:38:07PM -0700, Brian Murray wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 07:56:56AM -0700, Joe Areeda wrote:
>>> When filing a bug report or a mail list post, what is the best UID for
>>> an iso image?
>>>
>>> I've been using something like "Natty amd64 iso zsynced 4/5/2011".  I
>>> suppose given the international nature of Ubuntu I should use 2011-4-5
>>> for the date but besides that how do you unambiguously specify which
>>> version we're talking about.
>> I found the following on a loopback mounted ISO in isolinux/f1.txt:
>>
>> This is an installation system for Ubuntu 11.04.
>> It was built on 20110411.
>>
>> That's the date one should use.  It might appear elsewhere when actually
>> running the image.
> It's in /cdrom/syslinux/f1.txt too.
>
> --
> Brian Murray
> Ubuntu Bug Master
>
Interestingly a bootable USB is different than the CD and it's in
/media/<UID>/isolinux/f1.txt.

I've searched and cannot find it on an installed system.  Right now
dmesg has the same date on the kernel

"Linux version 2.6.38-8-generic (buildd@allspice) (gcc version 4.5.2
(Ubuntu/Linaro 4.5.2-8ubuntu3) ) #42-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 11 03:31:24 UTC
2011 (Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2)"

But I think Brian's method is best.

Maybe an RFE for the installer to save some sort identifier somewhere?

Joe