[OT] Re: how to apply a patch set

[Eric Schuele]

On 09/18/2006 13:31, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> Eric Schuele <e.schuele at computer.org> writes:
> 
>> On 09/17/2006 17:40, Matthew Seaman wrote:
>>> 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.
>> <snip>
>>
>>> The '#N' business after the version number is a counter showing how
>>> many times you've updated your kernel.
>> For the longest time this counter has never increased for me (it used
>> to).  It now stays at zero, yet I have rebuilt world numerous
>> times. Must be something in the way I am doing things.  Any idea what
>> would cause it to *not* increase?
> 
> Deleting /usr/obj is the usual cause of that.

Ah, yes, that's it.  Thank you.

As I said... it used to always increment for me.  Then stopped at some 
time when I wasn't paying attention to it.  It must've stopped after I 
added the following to my script (as per 21.4.14.6 of the handbook):

# chflags -R noschg /usr/obj/usr
# rm -rf /usr/obj/usr
# cd /usr/src
# make cleandir
# make cleandir

The handbook says to do the above if things go wrong.  I figured I'd be 
a little more proactive.

Thanks.

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Regards,
Eric