On Thu 2012-05-03 20:48:17 UTC+0200, Leslie Jensen (les...@eskk.nu) wrote: > > Short answer: The patch level (-p3) displayed by uname -r after a > > reboot will not change if freebsd-update has not touched the kernel.
... > I have read similar answers and was partly aware of this. > > But I was just curious to why. > > I'll accept it and let a kernel rebuild be a part of my updates. If you're running the GENERIC kernel then you're only creating extra work for yourself by rebuilding it for the sole purpose of having uname -r show the "correct" patchlevel... On the other hand if you're running a custom kernel then you only need to rebuild the kernel when freebsd-update touches the kernel sources. I don't recall the kernel was touched at all with the most recently -p7 patch (openssl), for example, so there's absolutely no need to rebuild it. Apologies if this was already obvious. Regards Andrew _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
