From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 4 11:32:41 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8078216A40F for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 11:32:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pobox@verysmall.org) Received: from thing.verysmall.org (thing.verysmall.org [212.100.226.116]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F01D843D53 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 11:32:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pobox@verysmall.org) Received: from [130.83.72.56] (x56.vpn.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de [130.83.72.56]) by thing.verysmall.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C3DB2282F; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 12:31:30 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <45239BD7.30502@verysmall.org> Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 13:32:39 +0200 From: "pobox@verysmall.org" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alistair Sutton References: <45239982.2000006@verysmall.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what are pX and #X X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 11:32:41 -0000 > My understanding is that as long as pX doesn't change then #X will be > incremented. > > If you do another rebuild of your p10 system now then I would imagine > that #X would increase to #1 and will continue to increase until pX is > altered. > > Al Interesting. I'll give it a try. What confuses me is that p is changed to 10 by updating only the kernel (the world is supposedly the old one). This means that there is no clear indication what is exactly updated (kernel/world) and what is not. Thank you, Iv. --