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?

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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