Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:33:34 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> To: ograbme <ograbme@gmail.com> Cc: RJ45 <rj45@slacknet.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie Question - what does the "...-p6" mean? Message-ID: <20060914113334.6f85ac2e.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> In-Reply-To: <586895196.20060914112721@gmail.com> References: <586895196.20060914112721@gmail.com>
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In response to ograbme <ograbme@gmail.com>: > > Hello All. > > Thursday, September 14, 2006, 4:24:43 AM, RJ45 wrote in regards to his > message titled "Memory problem": > > <snip> > > R> I am running FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p6 build with buildworld. > > <snip> > > What does the "-p6" nomenclature represent in the above statement? > I've noticed some messages have contained various "-pX's". I recently > just installed FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p0 (according to -uname command) > from a FreeBSD Mall 4-CD set, dated May 2006. Does this "-p" number > represent an updated ?Version? containing new patches or ...? The 'p' is for "patch level". See any of the security advisories, for example: http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:20.bind.asc Patch releases are only made when there are security flaws found or major stability problems fixed. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. **************************************************************** IMPORTANT: This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If the reader of this message is not an intended recipient (or the individual responsible for the delivery of this message to an intended recipient), please be advised that any re-use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is prohibited. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message, which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. ****************************************************************
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