From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 1 17:46:33 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D5EE1065678 for ; Sun, 1 Mar 2009 17:46:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danielby@slightlystrange.org) Received: from mtaout01-winn.ispmail.ntl.com (mtaout01-winn.ispmail.ntl.com [81.103.221.47]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D59C48FC20 for ; Sun, 1 Mar 2009 17:46:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danielby@slightlystrange.org) Received: from aamtaout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.35]) by mtaout01-winn.ispmail.ntl.com (InterMail vM.7.08.04.00 201-2186-134-20080326) with ESMTP id <20090301174631.JWYY2989.mtaout01-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@aamtaout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com> for ; Sun, 1 Mar 2009 17:46:31 +0000 Received: from catflap.slightlystrange.org ([82.21.101.171]) by aamtaout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com (InterMail vG.2.02.00.01 201-2161-120-102-20060912) with ESMTP id <20090301174631.PYQK21638.aamtaout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@catflap.slightlystrange.org> for ; Sun, 1 Mar 2009 17:46:31 +0000 Received: by catflap.slightlystrange.org (Postfix, from userid 106) id 28E9E66E3; Sun, 1 Mar 2009 17:46:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: from torus.slightlystrange.org (torus.slightlystrange.org [10.1.3.50]) by catflap.slightlystrange.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 688C1613B for ; Sun, 1 Mar 2009 17:46:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by torus.slightlystrange.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 1 Mar 2009 17:46:27 +0000 From: "Daniel Bye" Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 17:46:27 +0000 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20090301174626.GA1643@torus.slightlystrange.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20090301085048.2a5d6f3d.james@slohall.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="7JfCtLOvnd9MIVvH" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090301085048.2a5d6f3d.james@slohall.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-PGP-Fingerprint: D349 B109 0EB8 2554 4D75 B79A 8B17 F97C 1622 166A X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE i386 X-Cloudmark-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=qK7LnxbYhQYA:10 a=ehNlctqhnw0A:10 a=6I5d2MoRAAAA:8 a=OanrbVeNVYQLgoc8DqAA:9 a=ehb76dh2zZsRnPjaohgRU0YVYvwA:4 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 a=-aUmRFDV-aEJ5CoO:21 a=JJ5SVG6jw3wukBeH:21 a=j5n6qnI6rP7Y34MobewA:9 a=2rDsFyivzHoZFcuqMyAnTfH90fkA:4 a=rPt6xJ-oxjAA:10 Subject: Re: freebsd-update patch not being applied X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Daniel Bye List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 17:46:33 -0000 --7JfCtLOvnd9MIVvH Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 08:50:48AM -0800, James wrote: > For some reason when i type uname -a on my desktop, which is running 7.1,= all I see is this: >=20 > $ uname -a > FreeBSD me 7.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE #0: Thu Jan 1 08:58:24 UTC 2= 009 root@driscoll.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 >=20 > But if i run freebsd-update fetch i get this >=20 > $ sudo freebsd-update fetch > Password: > Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 2 mirrors found. > Fetching metadata signature for 7.1-RELEASE from update2.FreeBSD.org... = done. > Fetching metadata index... done. > Inspecting system... done. > Preparing to download files... done. >=20 > No updates needed to update system to 7.1-RELEASE-p3. >=20 > Everytime the application has said there are new updates i installed them= with `freebsd-update install`, > and eventually i got around to restarting, but when I log back in and typ= e `uname -a` I get the same message > as above: `7.1-RELEASE #0` >=20 > Now on a seperate system running 7.0 I have a similar problem where uname= -a always reports `7.0-RELEASE-p7 #0` > even though freebsd-update reports > Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 2 mirrors found. > Fetching metadata signature for 7.0-RELEASE from update2.FreeBSD.org... = done. > Fetching metadata index... done. > Inspecting system... done. > Preparing to download files... done. >=20 > No updates needed to update system to 7.0-RELEASE-p10. >=20 > Now I'm new to the BSD world, but i do have a fair amount of experience w= ith Linux. What I am trying to figure > out here, is why uname -a reports a different patch number than it should. This is the normal behaviour for freebsd-update. The patch level number will only bump if an update affects the kernel. The most recent updates for 7.1 didn't touch the kernel, so you still see the previous (somewhat confusing) version number. However, if the next update requires that the kernel be replaced, then you'll see the patch level number increase. Hope this makes sense... Dan --=20 Daniel Bye _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ --7JfCtLOvnd9MIVvH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkmqyfIACgkQixf5fBYiFmp70wCdGoYGiYNd9IRSmyCkVSOGcxei 7SMAn07uBhl9yXYFFK9tjj/cYJ/OSkYE =OeTU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --7JfCtLOvnd9MIVvH--