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Date:      Sat, 22 Jun 2002 18:42:54 -0400
From:      Christopher Weimann <cweimann@k12hq.com>
To:        Stacey Roberts <sroberts@dsl.pipex.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvsup stable-supfile does not update GENERIC (and others) kernel?
Message-ID:  <20020622184253.A26635@mail.k12us.com>
In-Reply-To: <1024742550.87383.8.camel@Demon.Strobe.org>; from sroberts@dsl.pipex.com on Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 11:42:29AM %2B0100
References:  <1024742550.87383.8.camel@Demon.Strobe.org>

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On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 11:42:29AM +0100, Stacey Roberts wrote:
> 
> This morning when I came round to configure the new kenel I noticed that
> the date did not reflect any change to that of the last time I rebuilt
> my kenel. In fact my current kernel is *newer* that GENREIC!
> 
> # cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf
> # ls -la
> total 185
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel    512 Jun  4 21:35 .
> drwxr-xr-x  11 root  wheel    512 Feb 11 01:58 ..
> lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel     19 Feb 11 12:35 BEAST ->
> /root/kernels/BEAST
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel   9064 May 26 00:09 GENERIC
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel   8931 Apr 26 23:48 GENERIC.orig
> lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel     20 Feb 13 20:43 HAMMER ->
> /root/kernels/HAMMER
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel   9177 May  7 00:09 IRON
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel   9130 May  6 23:58 IRON.old
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel   9123 Apr 27 10:49 IRON.orig
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  99850 May 26 00:09 LINT
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel   9318 Jun  4 21:35 THOR <---- Current kernel
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  16000 Apr 30 23:23 lpt0
> # 
> 

These aren't kernels.  These are kernel config files.  I would 
think it is quite possible that the GENERIC kernel config
file has not changed since may.


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