Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 13:54:28 +0000 From: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> To: Roberto Nunnari <roberto.nunnari@supsi.ch> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: patches and uname -a Message-ID: <8E000CF1-7D7E-4E63-8EE5-BB87BF9C44E8@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <43C64C52.9020209@supsi.ch> References: <43C64C52.9020209@supsi.ch>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --Apple-Mail-11--146920764 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed On 12 Jan 2006, at 12:32, Roberto Nunnari wrote: > Hello. > > Please also answer to my mailbox as I'm not on the list. > > After upgrading by sources and build world, uname correctly > reports the current version of the system > > Today for the first time I applied all the relevant patches > instead and all went well. The box was 5.3-RELEASE-p23. > > The applied patches should correspond to 5.3-RELEASE-p24, but: > > # uname -r > 5.3-RELEASE-p23 > > and: > > # sysctl kern.version > kern.version: FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p23 #0: Tue Jan 3 15:40:08 CET 2006 > ... > > I'd like to be able to see the correct version using > 'uname -r'.. > > Does anybody know how can you make uname report the > real version? What if you recompile the kernel after > patching the system? Would that do the trick? Recompiling the kernel is the correct way to change the output of uname(1), but before you do so, you should be aware that that patch number is taken from the BRANCH variable in src/sys/conf/newvers.sh. Check that it says "5.3-RELEASE-p24" before you waste time recompiling the kernel. Ceri --Apple-Mail-11--146920764 content-type: application/pgp-signature; x-mac-type=70674453; name=PGP.sig content-description: This is a digitally signed message part content-disposition: inline; filename=PGP.sig content-transfer-encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) iD8DBQFDxl+Zme8yCsQvJJ0RAlJDAJ9ahcH4yopyMsK4NhBpgMg4AF4/MACcCJFh nnTwUraEPcXwpDe+kHpdaoE= =0yJY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail-11--146920764--
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