From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 20 11:02:11 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30E6D9BC for ; Sun, 20 Oct 2013 11:02:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from emorrasg@yahoo.es) Received: from nm1.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com (nm1.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com [77.238.189.58]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 60637221E for ; Sun, 20 Oct 2013 11:02:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [77.238.189.55] by nm1.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 20 Oct 2013 11:02:02 -0000 Received: from [46.228.39.106] by tm8.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 20 Oct 2013 11:02:02 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp143.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 20 Oct 2013 11:02:02 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.es; s=s1024; t=1382266922; bh=pM/rXTDqtLz+93mMeRHSqOgsGxkBP4nBsxMGwRZmRE8=; h=X-Yahoo-Newman-Id:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-SMTP:X-Rocket-Received:Date:From:To:Subject:Message-Id:In-Reply-To:References:X-Mailer:Disposition-Notification-To:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=GxVv15ouZJNvMCKulALjE0FUGNs5mLEDNQkgWRfudLVHr1LJBh+4OGHkkU0R0A1pnnevPA7IqgpTpyZAvydKL3cI5/COyzIds0pvgY0QJ8w8/4P4tnupKEOr+JO8l32IMjQmlU70Mt7oayLnL5XpkZGwIFK1mq4IErHmZ/n2QkY= X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 687047.88785.bm@smtp143.mail.ir2.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: ku2s3swVM1mcjMl.7hHqaIxyecdpw6waHrwKmctkq5mQbJY qO8LTnWXAxpTpciLfMv5PFhiThGwIGjWMYvxh2XyejnjFRdnv_qSF_zUZupO aIRJYaxpU_XkHgawGbeqN26.Bkz2H11weO69Qv656eMJkdIhdnEk.qrpQx6c Y.MGuaf36hJRpOPYJkeWr8begSRyzjzmh7gbc_oTMlQkAuB7gPDK38PTWG62 ebouCNBlZTQLGOd_UxRkcMBRXns.ogyP8J3xJ0BAiP6M3.97PTKT0OCrv29A 5jXN_wzHBDN1vdqLtP5F63YET72QY0zBU_k8AE.M_Vx7otLTth_MFqaP91Ne Cv0upseQMztC0IFDa7txiJSEMKZW3sIGx.RL9IY49gsb_CMJ0GcRyZEHxnr4 un_HCtI.gtAkWFNZX3K8SZ7hDg5VoRHVpNlmrXz2bfof..GFrQXHxgkXSlAC rSfSOjuOr.aMn9OQq7Pvq0QMQ6HYaLzg4_yCBMHnITgHZdnmkpx1_i.Q- X-Yahoo-SMTP: mX392iiswBAeJNdO_s.EW62LZDJR X-Rocket-Received: from camibar.emorras.eu (emorrasg@89.7.216.154 with ) by smtp143.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 20 Oct 2013 11:02:02 +0000 UTC Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 13:02:08 +0200 From: Eduardo Morras To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.4-RELEASE-p12 Message-Id: <20131020130208.a1b6b6944a8ac1b1eec138a2@yahoo.es> In-Reply-To: <1381424840.11040.32473177.511919E0@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <201310090332.r993We9X098245@chilled.skew.org> <20131009153605.3c6524c8a1ce44965a54ae6a@yahoo.es> <1381424840.11040.32473177.511919E0@webmail.messagingengine.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.3.0 (GTK+ 2.24.19; amd64-portbld-freebsd9.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 11:02:11 -0000 Sorry for the delay Mark On Thu, 10 Oct 2013 12:07:20 -0500 Mark Felder wrote: > > You are incorrect. The output of uname -a is taken from the kernel and > cannot be updated without installing a new kernel. > >From uname and uname(3) man pages, "An environment variable composed of the string UNAME_ followed by any flag to the uname utility (except for -a) will allow the corresponding data to be set to the contents of the environment variable." The -a flag behave as though the options -m, -n, -r, -s, and -v were specified. Freebsd-update can modify /root/.profile or better, /etc/profile, adding those environment variables with correct and update values. --- --- Eduardo Morras