From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 31 00:11:43 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81C2616A802 for ; Wed, 31 May 2006 00:11:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dev@freedomcircle.net) Received: from vms042pub.verizon.net (vms042pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3597043D48 for ; Wed, 31 May 2006 00:11:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dev@freedomcircle.net) Received: from [192.169.1.3] ([71.101.6.8]) by vms042.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-4.02 (built Sep 9 2005)) with ESMTPA id <0J0300FVASJGKX06@vms042.mailsrvcs.net> for questions@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 30 May 2006 19:11:42 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 20:12:25 -0400 From: Joe In-reply-to: <20060530222808.GA34725@xor.obsecurity.org> To: Kris Kennaway Message-id: <447CDF69.4030704@freedomcircle.net> Organization: Freedom Circle, LLC MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <447B86F3.6070500@freedomcircle.net> <20060530002535.GA94917@xor.obsecurity.org> <447CB067.1080309@freedomcircle.net> <20060530213344.GA34025@xor.obsecurity.org> <447CC3C8.9020300@freedomcircle.net> <20060530222808.GA34725@xor.obsecurity.org> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: pkg_upgrade? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 00:11:48 -0000 Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 06:14:32PM -0400, Joe wrote: >> I don't have access to the system right now, but after the sysinstall I >> looked at some of the files in /bin and saw that most had a date of May >> 6, 2006 (or thereabouts) so I assumed that meant the binary upgrade had >> been successful. How can I verify that the actual kernel was upgraded? >> Also, I haven't been able to locate much information about a binary >> upgrade in the Handbook. The only reference was in the INSTALL.htm in >> the release directory. > > ls -l /boot/kernel The .ko files have a Nov 3 2005 date, whereas the files in /boot including the kernel directory have a May 6 2006 date. I take it that Nov 3 means 6.0-RELEASE since the announcement was done on Nov 4. So, I guess I'm back to the question of how to do a binary upgrade from 6.0 to 6.1 (and particularly where is this documented). Should I attempt another sysinstall Upgrade? Joe