From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 4 11:22:49 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 A291316A412 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 11:22:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pobox@verysmall.org) Received: from thing.verysmall.org (thing.verysmall.org [212.100.226.116]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F05FD43D5A for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 11:22:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pobox@verysmall.org) Received: from [130.83.72.56] (x56.vpn.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de [130.83.72.56]) by thing.verysmall.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A73022288F for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 12:21:34 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <45239982.2000006@verysmall.org> Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 13:22:42 +0200 From: "pobox@verysmall.org" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: what are pX and #X X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 11:22:49 -0000 What are pX and #X after the version displayed by 'uname'? As far as I know pX is the 'patch set' and #X is the number of times the kernel has been updated. However, yesterday I updated the kernel (of 6.1 installed from the boot CD and then FTP - some time ago) and p jumped to p10, while #X remained zero. I thought pX changes only when world is built and #X should have been changed to #1. What I did was - cvsup-ed src with tag RELENG_6_1 cd /usr/src create MYKERNEL config (just commented cpu I486_CPU and I586_CPU) make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL make installkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL reboot Iv --