From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 1 21:37:22 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B86C16A41C for ; Fri, 1 Jul 2005 21:37:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from noackjr@alumni.rice.edu) Received: from smtp107.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com (smtp107.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.198.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CB28C43D49 for ; Fri, 1 Jul 2005 21:37:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from noackjr@alumni.rice.edu) Received: (qmail 62117 invoked from network); 1 Jul 2005 21:37:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO optimator.noacks.org) (noacks@swbell.net@70.240.197.70 with login) by smtp107.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 1 Jul 2005 21:37:21 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by optimator.noacks.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE1E161A2; Fri, 1 Jul 2005 16:37:20 -0500 (CDT) Received: from optimator.noacks.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (optimator.noacks.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 19341-01; Fri, 1 Jul 2005 16:37:19 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (optimator [192.168.1.11]) by optimator.noacks.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA1A861A1; Fri, 1 Jul 2005 16:37:18 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <42C5B789.8090202@alumni.rice.edu> Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 16:37:13 -0500 From: Jonathan Noack User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lars References: <42C45A55.4020303@gmx.at> <6.1.0.6.2.20050630205112.159c9470@cobalt.antimatter.net> <42C570F2.8030504@gmx.at> In-Reply-To: <42C570F2.8030504@gmx.at> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 OpenPGP: id=991D8195; url=http://www.noacks.org/cert/noackjr.asc Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig0390EB80C131B754DD5521D3" X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at noacks.org Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How is the patchlevel set? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: noackjr@alumni.rice.edu List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 21:37:22 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig0390EB80C131B754DD5521D3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 7/1/2005 11:36 AM, lars wrote: > It seems > src/sys/conf/newvers.sh > is only triggered by a recompilation of the kernel, > at least the lines > i=`${MAKE:-make} -V KERN_IDENT` > and > char kern_ident[] = "${i}"; > make me believe that. > > I also try to cvsup my src and recompile the kernel and world > in one go instead of only patching and recompiling the subsystem, > since that bumps the patchlevel and keeps all synchronised. > That's not possible in all scenarios, of course. > > Again thanks for the answers, but how did you find that out? I originally suspected as much based on experience. I got curious and noticed that newvers.sh was one of the files changed with every security update. From there it was code inspection... -- Jonathan Noack | noackjr@alumni.rice.edu | OpenPGP: 0x991D8195 --------------enig0390EB80C131B754DD5521D3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (MingW32) iD8DBQFCxbeOUFz01pkdgZURAnuiAJ9uXMnL3bjkp137nuVUXMN4yYUINACdEhAi g43VQDVDv8LaMslgZCUsOos= =g9X3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig0390EB80C131B754DD5521D3--