From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 4 11:58:27 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 8DE9C16A40F for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 11:58:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@dfwlp.com) Received: from zeus.dfwlp.com (zeus.dfwlp.com [208.11.134.127]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3116143D49 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 11:58:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@dfwlp.com) Received: from athena.dfwlp.com (athena.dfwlp.com [192.168.125.83]) (authenticated bits=0) by zeus.dfwlp.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k94BwMZD060091 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 06:58:23 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from freebsd@dfwlp.com) From: Jonathan Horne To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 06:58:22 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <45239982.2000006@verysmall.org> <45239BD7.30502@verysmall.org> In-Reply-To: <45239BD7.30502@verysmall.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610040658.22590.freebsd@dfwlp.com> X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.1.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.5 (2006-08-29) on zeus.dfwlp.com Subject: Re: 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 11:58:27 -0000 On Wednesday 04 October 2006 06:32, pobox@verysmall.org wrote: > > My understanding is that as long as pX doesn't change then #X will be > > incremented. > > > > If you do another rebuild of your p10 system now then I would imagine > > that #X would increase to #1 and will continue to increase until pX is > > altered. > > > > Al > > Interesting. I'll give it a try. > > What confuses me is that p is changed to 10 by updating only the kernel > (the world is supposedly the old one). This means that there is no clear > indication what is exactly updated (kernel/world) and what is not. > > Thank you, > Iv. > > -- pX is the patch level, and this information can be followed here: http://www.freebsd.org/security/#adv the #X is independant to the pX, and represents how many time the same kernel has been rebuilt on (or for) a system. my system has had only 1 p10 kernel, but mine says #3. hth, jonathan