Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 20:01:45 +0000 (UTC) From: Walter Hurry <walterhurry@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD-update? Message-ID: <kl9dn9$vrb$2@ger.gmane.org> References: <kl8vjf$nll$1@ger.gmane.org> <20130424203430.e127c9a56fe88f968eed6ad5@sohara.org> <op.wv19hfhe34t2sn@tech304.office.supranet.net>
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On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:52:17 -0500, Mark Felder wrote: > On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:34:30 -0500, Steve O'Hara-Smith > <steve@sohara.org> wrote: > >> You have updated to 9.1-RELEASE-p2 - but since there have been no >> kernel changes since 9.1-RELEASE the kernel version message hasn't >> changed. >> This could very reasonably be regarded as bug in the update/version >> reporting process but I wouldn't hold my breath for a fix, as things >> stand the version reported only changes when the kernel is updated, or >> if you recompile it after the update. > > It would be nice if the version of the OS itself was stored in something > like /etc/freebsd-version so you know what the version of the OS as a > whole is. I'd even accept some sort of output by freebsd-update. It just > seems silly that there's no other way -- kern.osrelease is just the base > release and kern.version is the same thing that uname -a outputs. It's > hard to pick this up and monitor it accurately. I think I agree with this. It's somewhat confusing for a novice like me. Thanks to all for the helpful replies.
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