From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 29 15:06:12 2004 Return-Path: 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 57F3116A4CE for ; Thu, 29 Jul 2004 15:06:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from server2.sonservers.com (server2.sonservers.com [69.50.210.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 413B143D49 for ; Thu, 29 Jul 2004 15:06:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from info@sonservers.com) Received: from 209-181-157-189.omah.qwest.net ([209.181.157.189] helo=192.168.1.20) by server2.sonservers.com with smtp (Exim 4.41 (FreeBSD)) id 1BqCTj-000G1g-GR; Thu, 29 Jul 2004 10:05:55 -0500 From: Scott To: Matthew Seaman , Puna Tannehill , X-Mailer: Barca 1.0 (700) - Licensed Version Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 10:05:49 -0500 Message-ID: <200472910549.670990@IBM-R40> In-Reply-To: <20040729144550.GC28698@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - server2.sonservers.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [26 6] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - sonservers.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating 5.2.1 Release # X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: info@sonservers.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 15:06:12 -0000 =A0 ( =A0 What the original poster was thinking of is =A0 ( =A0 the patchlevel that gets incremented every =A0 ( =A0 time a new security (or nowadays: errata) =A0 ( =A0 patch is applied to any of the -RELEASE =A0 ( =A0 branches. =A0That modifies the OS name (ie. =A0 ( =A0 the output of 'uname -r') That is exactly right Matthew. I thought (assumed) that "#0" in the uname -a= output was the patchlevel of the OS. At this point in my life, I'm not so= concerned about what that number is, but rather I am running the most= secure and stable patchlevel available. So if I set my cvs tag as Ezequiel (thank you) suggested: change: *default release=3Dcvs tag=3DRELENG_5_2_1_RELEASE to: *default release=3Dcvs tag=3DRELENG_5_2_1 That will get me the latest patches? I'll make that change and rebuild again today. Thanks all for your help. :) Scott