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Date:      Sat, 11 Jun 2005 18:46:51 -1000
From:      Robert Marella <rmarella@gmail.com>
To:        Paul Dufresne <dufresnep@fastmail.fm>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, luke <lgrady@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: What is 5.4 p2 ?
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Paul Dufresne wrote:
>>and more curious. I updated one of my systems to 5.4 p2 today
> 
> 
> Being a newcomer to FreeBSD, I understand about Release version,
> STABLE version and CURRENT one. But I don't understand this
> p2 you are refering to.
> I could guess it means point release 2, so I checked:
> http://www.freebsd.org/where.html
> But files seems to be for 5.4-RELEASe still from May 8.
> 
> So what is 5.4 p2 ?
> 

robert@p4:~> uname -a
FreeBSD p4.konav201.local 5.4-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p2 #1: Fri 
Jun 10 11:45:43 HST 2005 
root@p4.konav201.local:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/P4-5_4REL  i386

It is my understanding that the p# stands for the second patch to 5.4 
Release. Correct me if I am wrong.

Robert



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