Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 13:22:42 +0200 From: "pobox@verysmall.org" <pobox@verysmall.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: what are pX and #X Message-ID: <45239982.2000006@verysmall.org>
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What are pX and #X after the version displayed by 'uname'? As far as I know pX is the 'patch set' and #X is the number of times the kernel has been updated. However, yesterday I updated the kernel (of 6.1 installed from the boot CD and then FTP - some time ago) and p jumped to p10, while #X remained zero. I thought pX changes only when world is built and #X should have been changed to #1. What I did was - cvsup-ed src with tag RELENG_6_1 cd /usr/src create MYKERNEL config (just commented cpu I486_CPU and I586_CPU) make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL make installkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL reboot Iv --
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