Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 10:30:49 +0200 (CEST) From: Pieter Donche <Pieter.Donche@ua.ac.be> To: "mail.list freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: freebsd version numbers Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906011017020.19528@macos.cmi.ua.ac.be>
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I upgraded to Freebsd systems from 7.0 to 7.2 on the first one, done May 25th, I use the generic kernel $ uname -a reports: 7.2-RELEASE #0 on the second one, done 3 days later (May 28th) on this system I also build and installed a custom kernel after upgrade. $ uname -a reports: 7.2-RELEASE #1 Why is this different? (#0 versus #1) What does #Number actually mean: is this the same as -pNumber used in the mails from @daily root freebsd-update cron "The following files will be updated as part of updating to X.Y-RELEASE-pNumber" If not, what is the difference ? what's the difference between version, level, patchlevel, 'release level', 'version level of a release' (any others ?), ...
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