From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 29 14:46:08 2004 Return-Path: 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 D05E916A4CE for ; Thu, 29 Jul 2004 14:46:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 005A243D49 for ; Thu, 29 Jul 2004 14:46:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:::1])i6TEjodO016126 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 29 Jul 2004 15:45:50 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost)id i6TEjolM016125; Thu, 29 Jul 2004 15:45:50 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew) Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 15:45:50 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman To: Puna Tannehill Message-ID: <20040729144550.GC28698@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , Puna Tannehill , info@sonservers.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20047299555.097692@IBM-R40> <41090BAF.6010600@imagescape.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="7qSK/uQB79J36Y4o" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41090BAF.6010600@imagescape.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Greylist: Message not sent from an IPv4 address, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.5.3 (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [0.0.0.0]); Thu, 29 Jul 2004 15:45:50 +0100 (BST) X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version devel-20040705, clamav-milter version 0.74a on smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk cc: info@sonservers.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating 5.2.1 Release # X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 14:46:09 -0000 --7qSK/uQB79J36Y4o Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 09:37:35AM -0500, Puna Tannehill wrote: > Scott wrote: > >uname -a shows: > >FreeBSD 5.2.1-Release #0: > > > >I was expecting the release (version, revision# ?) number to=20 > >be greater than #0. I think I've seen where the latest=20 > >revision is #9 or so? Do I need to tell it to get the latest=20 > >revision somehow? Do I need to change the cvs tag=3D to=20 > >something else to get up to date? >=20 > I thought the #number indicated the number of times the server has been= =20 > rebooted based upon the last time the kernel was recompiled. Being that = it=20 > is #0, it was your first book. Reboot the machine and check the number= =20 > again. I believe that the #n is the number of times the kernel has been re-compiled since the last time the system was installed. It's probably not a very interesting datum except to kernel hackers who need to do a lot of recompiling. What the original poster was thinking of is the patchlevel that gets incremented every time a new security (or nowadays: errata) patch is applied to any of the -RELEASE branches. That modifies the OS name (ie. the output of 'uname -r'), so instead of: 5.2.1-RELEASE it says (at the latest count): 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 See /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh for the file that controls all that. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK --7qSK/uQB79J36Y4o Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBCQ2eiD657aJF7eIRAhz1AJ90qvGVH6JbTpAXIIUwmoMbaQRdyACgjlvC He7GwPacwQsldpKBUgt2PH8= =E5G3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --7qSK/uQB79J36Y4o--