Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 15:45:50 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Puna Tannehill <puna@imagescape.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating 5.2.1 Release # Message-ID: <20040729144550.GC28698@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <41090BAF.6010600@imagescape.com> References: <20047299555.097692@IBM-R40> <41090BAF.6010600@imagescape.com>
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--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--
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