Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 11:35:12 -0500 From: Puna Tannehill <puna@imagescape.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating 5.2.1 Release # Message-ID: <41092740.4080406@imagescape.com> In-Reply-To: <20040729144550.GC28698@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <20047299555.097692@IBM-R40> <41090BAF.6010600@imagescape.com> <20040729144550.GC28698@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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Matthew Seaman wrote: > 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 >>>be greater than #0. I think I've seen where the latest >>>revision is #9 or so? Do I need to tell it to get the latest >>>revision somehow? Do I need to change the cvs tag= to >>>something else to get up to date? >> >>I thought the #number indicated the number of times the server has been >>rebooted based upon the last time the kernel was recompiled. Being that it >>is #0, it was your first book. Reboot the machine and check the number >> 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. Oh right right. Thank you for the correction. I'm still wiping the sleep from my eyes. Actually, it might be an "fun" indicator of how many 15-20 minute chunks of time one can never get back. heehee hmm ~sighs and sips coffee~ Puna > 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 >
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