Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 10:23:03 -0500 From: Paul Mather <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> To: mexas@bris.ac.uk Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wrong patchlevel after freebsd-update install? Message-ID: <7B7C7B31-B89F-4770-8DA1-CE7D0BD513EB@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <201412120930.sBC9UUEF041702@mech-as221.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <201412120930.sBC9UUEF041702@mech-as221.men.bris.ac.uk>
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On Dec 12, 2014, at 4:30 AM, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bris.ac.uk> = wrote: > On 10.0-RELEASE-p12 amd64 I updated to p13 as: >=20 > freebsd-update fetch > freebsd-update install > reboot >=20 > However, uname still shows the old patchlevel: >=20 > # uname -a > FreeBSD 001cc0f01814.anet.bris.ac.uk 10.0-RELEASE-p12 FreeBSD = 10.0-RELEASE-p12 #0: Tue Nov 4 05:07:17 UTC 2014 = root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 > # >=20 > But freebsd-update fetch suggests I'm already at p13: >=20 > # freebsd-update fetch > Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 5 mirrors found. > Fetching metadata signature for 10.0-RELEASE from = update5.freebsd.org... done. > Fetching metadata index... done. > Inspecting system... done. > Preparing to download files... done. >=20 > No updates needed to update system to 10.0-RELEASE-p13. > # >=20 > So has the update p12 -> p13 succeeded? What does "freebsd-version" report? If it returns 10.0-RELEASE-p13 then = your freebsd-update succeeded. > Please clarify It's my understanding that uname only gets updated when freebsd-update = updates the kernel. I think that's why freebsd-version was introduced. >=20 > Thanks >=20 > Anton Cheers, Paul.
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