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Date:      Mon, 10 Mar 2003 12:57:35 -0500 (EST)
From:      doug@safeport.com
To:        Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Upgrading for FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-03:04.sendmail
Message-ID:  <20030310125221.C19750@pemaquid.safeport.com>
In-Reply-To: <15980.53213.838528.49487@guru.mired.org>
References:  <20030310003020.P85374@pemaquid.safeport.com> <15980.45128.813345.965160@guru.mired.org> <20030310115546.A19750@pemaquid.safeport.com> <15980.53213.838528.49487@guru.mired.org>

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I cleaned /usr/obj/usr/... but not /usr/src which was at some version of 4.7.
Also my root partition is a bit small so I played some games with /modules
/modules.old and kernel.old. The count is driven off one of those?

I did not mess with anything in /usr/src including /sys/../compile/.

On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Mike Meyer wrote:

> In <20030310115546.A19750@pemaquid.safeport.com>, doug@safeport.com typed:
> > Got it and thank you to all who replied. It is my memory that with some builds I
> > have gotten something other than #0. But maybe that was from building something
> > other than RELENG_4. I the sendmail fix was important enough where I felt the
> > need for some reassurance.
>
> The #0 is a counter of the number of builds done in that kernel build
> directory. You somehow started with a clean directory this time, so
> the number was reset to zero. If you build that kernel again - with or
> without cvsup - without cleaning out the directory, it will go to
> 1, then 2, and so on.
>
> 	<mike
> --
> Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>		http://www.mired.org/consulting.html
> Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information.
>

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