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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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
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