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
On 04/10/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
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
Interesting. I'll give it a try.
What confuses me is
On Wednesday 04 October 2006 06:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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
On Wednesday 04 October 2006 12:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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
Point releases often contain patches for both world and kernel. After
updating
source you shouldn't build *only* the kernel, unless you have
analysed the
changes and decided a world update is not needed.
Oh, I see. Thanks, that was useful.
Iv
