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Date:      Sat, 27 Feb 2021 16:04:13 -0800
From:      David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Upgrade to FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE and OSTYPE environment variable
Message-ID:  <4c5f5fac-8098-a8dc-5c00-2e959892fb7b@holgerdanske.com>
In-Reply-To: <2159cb62-9845-6eca-fc5b-e796b5966536@holgerdanske.com>
References:  <2159cb62-9845-6eca-fc5b-e796b5966536@holgerdanske.com>

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On 2/13/21 7:59 PM, David Christensen wrote:
> freebsd-questions:
> 
> I am upgrading my FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE machines to 12.2-RELEASE.  The 
> upgrade process seemed to go smoothly, but afterwards I noted that the 
> OSTYPE environment variable still has the old value:
> 
> 2021-02-13 19:56:02 toor@f1 ~
> # freebsd-version ; uname -a
> 12.2-RELEASE-p3
> FreeBSD f1.tracy.holgerdanske.com 12.2-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 
> 12.2-RELEASE-p3 GENERIC  amd64
> 
> 2021-02-13 19:56:11 toor@f1 ~
> # env | grep -i freebsd
> OSTYPE=freebsd12.1
> 
> 
> Please advise.

Apparently, the upgrade did not go as well as I had thought.  Running 
'freebsd-update upgrade' and/or 'freebsd-update fetch install' produced 
some additional results.  On one machine, I uninstalled Bash and 
installed Bash again.


David



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