From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 4 11:26:48 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 48AD216A403 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 11:26:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alistair.sutton@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.239]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1B7843D5A for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 11:26:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from alistair.sutton@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i27so133850wxd for ; Wed, 04 Oct 2006 04:26:47 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=or/aq/zWEcYruBQm6bIqqhQ+7APS0qAVpvc2i+1PwJx4lluZg49ul19nEyGOBB++pY8EIy4t4+sIFYgq6bRmDNSUM7gOLc3iy488HkLqFExDT9GUF0MYcsLbg67Kp1oq0ClYwYonZ1ntenv2gRCwWnMJ9hY1Be7udhTl6lN1m90= Received: by 10.90.84.17 with SMTP id h17mr35212agb; Wed, 04 Oct 2006 04:26:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.90.99.17 with HTTP; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 04:26:46 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 12:26:46 +0100 From: "Alistair Sutton" To: "pobox@verysmall.org" In-Reply-To: <45239982.2000006@verysmall.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <45239982.2000006@verysmall.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what are pX and #X X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 11:26:48 -0000 On 04/10/06, pobox@verysmall.org wrote: > 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 My understanding is that as long as pX doesn't change then #X will be incremented. If you do another rebuild of your p10 system now then I would imagine that #X would increase to #1 and will continue to increase until pX is altered. Al -- WWW: http://ajs.no-dns-yet.org.uk GPG/PGP: http://ajs.no-dns-yet.org.uk/pubkey.gpg