how to apply a patch set

[Matthew Seaman]

pobox at verysmall.org wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to apply a patch set to FreeBSD 5.5 (this letter 'p'
> followed by a number, after the version in 'uname -a') - but somehow it
> did not work.
> 
> I cvsup-ed the src using the standard 'stable-supfile' with '*default
> release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_5' - then I rebuild world.
> 
> Now 'uname -a' reports 'FreeBSD 5.5 STABLE #0'. Before it was 'FreeBSD
> 5.5 RELEASE #0'. So instead of applying patch set I have moved to 'STABLE'.
> 
> Could somebody tell me what have I done wrong? Actually - what is the
> difference between the 'pX' and the '#X' after the version?

You've shifted your self onto the RELENG_5 code branch rather than the
RELENG_5_5 branch.

RELENG_5 is most of the time going to give you a system version of
5.5-STABLE.  RELENG_5_5 gives you 5.5-RELEASE-pX.

As 5.5-RELEASE is has apparently been the last ever release of
FreeBSD 5.x, you'll find that there isn't actually that much difference
between 5.5-STABLE and 5.5-RELEASE-pX.  If you'ld been talking about
RELENG_6 versus RELENG_6_1 then as that that includes some very active
development on RELENG_6 then things would be different.

The '#N' business after the version number is a counter showing how 
many times you've updated your kernel.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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