Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 17:51:57 +0200 From: "Cedric GROSS" <cedric.gross@cnv.fr> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Updating 5.2.1 Release # Message-ID: <0E1A1C28F9D61A4D8B6F70AFA3C1B1E4289D@srvw2000-cnv1.cnv.local>
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=20 > Matthew Seaman > On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 09:37:35AM -0500, Puna Tannehill wrote: > > Scott wrote: >=20 > > >uname -a shows: > > >FreeBSD 5.2.1-Release #0: > > > > > >I was expecting the release (version, revision# ?) number to=20 > > >be greater than #0. I think I've seen where the latest=20 > > >revision is #9 or so? Do I need to tell it to get the latest=20 > > >revision somehow? Do I need to change the cvs tag=3D to=20 > > >something else to get up to date? > >=20 > > I thought the #number indicated the number of times the=20 > server has been=20 > > rebooted based upon the last time the kernel was=20 > recompiled. Being that it=20 > > is #0, it was your first book. Reboot the machine and=20 > check the number=20 > > again. >=20 > I believe that the #n is the number of times the kernel has been > re-compiled since the last time the system was installed. It's > probably not a very interesting datum except to kernel hackers who > need to do a lot of recompiling. >=20 > What the original poster was thinking of is the patchlevel that gets > incremented every time a new security (or nowadays: errata) patch is > applied to any of the -RELEASE branches. That modifies the OS name > (ie. the output of 'uname -r'), so instead of: So what is the diff between uname -r and uname -v, which produce for me : Uname -r : 5.2.1-RELEASE Uname -v : FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Jun 14 14:52:08 CEST 2004 root@bruce.cnv.local:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CNV_TOTAL Extract from man page : -r Write the current release level of the operating system -v Write the version level of this release of the operating system So that's mean that there are several Release ( as relesase level) and inside each release level there are several version level, am'I understanding well ? Cedric.
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