Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 11:10:27 -0800 From: Jason Helfman <jhelfman@e-e.com> To: Tom Worster <fsb@thefsb.org> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: determining freebsd-update status Message-ID: <20110304191027.GV76063@eggman.experts-exchange.com> In-Reply-To: <C996980D.F2C5%fsb@thefsb.org> References: <20110304180900.GU76063@eggman.experts-exchange.com> <C996980D.F2C5%fsb@thefsb.org>
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On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 02:05:15PM -0500, Tom Worster thus spake: >thanks for the answers, jason. two more questions below. > np > >On 3/4/11 1:09 PM, "Jason Helfman" <jhelfman@e-e.com> wrote: > >>On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 11:32:11AM -0500, Tom Worster thus spake: >>>to determine roughly where a server is in its updates (we're running only >>>RELEASE) i do: >>> >>>1 - check the 1st 4 fields of the tag file in the freebsd-update working >>>dir. >> >>Just because the 1st 4 fields are populated, doesn't necessarily imply it >>is >>running at that version. The tag is stating what it has recently "seen" >>as >>available on the update server, but that doesn't mean that those updates >>have been installed. > >ok. > > >>> >>>2 - check the output of freebsd-update IDS. >>> >>>is it the case that freebsd-update IDS checks base system status relative >>>to what's referenced in the tag file? >> >>No. The hash index file is pulled from the update server for the >>installed >>release, and your system is compared with that. > >"the installed release" being what exactly? What the system is running. > >and how does freebsd-update determine what it is? From the code, it appears to use `uname -r` and `uname -m`, for release and architecture, respectively. -jgh
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