From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 21 11:33:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FFDB1519A for ; Sun, 21 Mar 1999 11:33:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.164.76]) by mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v04.00.02.07 201-227-108) with SMTP id <19990321193410.JVZF682101.mta1-rme@wocker>; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 07:34:10 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 07:33:19 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: RE: upgrade to 3.1-stable gives 3.1-release Reply-To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: References: <199903202129.JAA50912@ns.freebsddiary.cx> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990321193410.JVZF682101.mta1-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 21 Mar 99, at 9:36, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > On 20-Mar-99 Dan Langille wrote: > > I've made four attempts to upgrade a box from 3.1-release to 3.1-stable. > > Everytime it's worked. Or at least, it's not resulted in any error > > messages. However, I don't think it's upgraded because "uname -a" still > > displays 3.1-RELEASE. > > Correct, AFAIK it should display 3.1-STABLE. > > And knowing that yer rsync ain't working, I can only say: cvsup ;) Well, this was getting to be a matter of principle. The problem was that I was not updating the src distributions. Once I did that and created a new kernel, the version was updated. It was either you or Jim that suggested this last night on the Undernet #FreeBSD IRC channel. Thanks. $ uname -a FreeBSD kennett.freebsddiary.cx 3.1-19990318-STABLE FreeBSD 3.1-19990318- STABLE #3: Thu Mar 18 09:03:30 NZDT 1999 root@kennett.freebsddiary.cx:/usr/src/sys/compile/KENNETT i386 -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary http://www.FreeBSDDiary.com/freebsd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message