Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 12:26:46 +0100 From: "Alistair Sutton" <alistair.sutton@gmail.com> To: "pobox@verysmall.org" <pobox@verysmall.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what are pX and #X Message-ID: <fa8f05950610040426g4cde657ciaf3b58de218108d0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <45239982.2000006@verysmall.org> References: <45239982.2000006@verysmall.org>
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On 04/10/06, pobox@verysmall.org <pobox@verysmall.org> wrote: > 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 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 -- WWW: http://ajs.no-dns-yet.org.uk GPG/PGP: http://ajs.no-dns-yet.org.uk/pubkey.gpg
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