From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 21 07:02:24 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 725F8928 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 07:02:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ipmail06.adl2.internode.on.net (ipmail06.adl2.internode.on.net [IPv6:2001:44b8:8060:ff02:300:1:2:6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0076327C5 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 07:02:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ppp118-210-25-33.lns20.adl2.internode.on.net (HELO leader.local) ([118.210.25.33]) by ipmail06.adl2.internode.on.net with ESMTP; 21 Nov 2013 17:32:22 +1030 Message-ID: <528DAFFB.2010409@ShaneWare.Biz> Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 17:32:19 +1030 From: Shane Ambler User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mason Loring Bliss Subject: Re: Kernel build error (9.2 on 9.1 userland) References: <20131119200931.GE13289@blisses.org> <528C6123.1010304@ShaneWare.Biz> <20131120161623.GU13289@blisses.org> In-Reply-To: <20131120161623.GU13289@blisses.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.16 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 07:02:24 -0000 On 21/11/2013 02:46, Mason Loring Bliss wrote: > On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 05:43:39PM +1030, Shane Ambler wrote: >> Normally freebsd-update will install minor updates to the installed system. >> You can use "freebsd-update -r 9.2-RELEASE upgrade" to upgrade to new >> release versions. > > Can it bring me to 10 now, by chance? Yes beta and rc versions are available through freebsd-update. I'm fairly sure that BETA, RC and RELEASE are considered different versions and require an upgrade to change between each. 10.0 is currently at beta3 If you want to follow the 10 development you probably want to subscribe to the freebsd-stable mailing list so you can get notified of releases and any steps that may be needed during beta and rc updates. >> A good way to identify your running system - uname -a > > The issue there was that it was identifying my kernel, but since I'd botched > my source tree updates, that didn't necessarily match my userland. It might > be nice if there was something like Debian's /etc/issue to identify the > userland version. > Unlike Linux, FreeBSD is one complete project, the kernel and userland source are updated and released as one unit. uname will identify the FreeBSD version including the svn revision of the source used, at least when an svn checkout is used to build , the kernel config file as well as build date and user@machineid that compiled it.