Re: How is the patchlevel set?

[Jonathan Noack]

On 7/1/2005 11:36 AM, lars wrote:

It seems
    src/sys/conf/newvers.sh
is only triggered by a recompilation of the kernel,
at least the lines
    i=`${MAKE:-make} -V KERN_IDENT`
and
    char kern_ident[] = "${i}";
make me believe that.

I also try to cvsup my src and recompile the kernel and world
in one go instead of only patching and recompiling the subsystem,
since that bumps the patchlevel and keeps all synchronised.
That's not possible in all scenarios, of course.

Again thanks for the answers, but how did you find that out?

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I originally suspected as much based on experience. I got curious and noticed that newvers.sh was one of the files changed with every security update. From there it was code inspection...

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