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RJ45 wrote:
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> hello, I have updated qith command freebsd-update
> and hte command
>
> freebsd-update fetch
>
> shows me I have already hte latest patch level  7.0-RELEASE-p1
>
> anyway uname -a shows me always 7.0-RELEASE #0
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> how can I do to have uname to show me the correct patch level ?
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> thanks
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> Rick
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As another reader already said, this can be "fixed" by recompiling the 
kernel. In fact, you may notice that this file changes every time 
freebsd-update fetches new patches:

/usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh

This is responsible for giving your custom kernels the -p1, -p2 and so 
on designations.
It is not however always necessary to recompile the kernel. Some updates 
do not really contain any changes to kernel code. For example, AFAIR, p1 
for 7.0 RELEASE only had some updates for the ssh daemon. In this case 
recompiling the kernel will only give you the p1 designation, but 
nothing much else. However this is still useful for people maintaining a 
number of machines: They can quickly tell which ones are updated and 
which not.