Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 23:39:06 -0400 (GMT-04:00) From: John <aqqa11@earthlink.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: where does uname get version number? Message-ID: <4357625.1397705947117.JavaMail.root@elwamui-hybrid.atl.sa.earthlink.net>
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-----Original Message-----
>From: Eduardo Morras <emorrasg@yahoo.es>
>Sent: Apr 16, 2014 4:04 AM
>To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
>Cc: John <aqqa11@earthlink.net>
>Subject: Re: where does uname get version number?
>
>On Wed, 16 Apr 2014 03:28:13 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
>John <aqqa11@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>> After a rocky upgrade from 9.1-RELEASE(-p10) to 9.2-RELEASE, all
>> files I checked are now in 9.2-RELEASE-p3. For example:
>>
>> /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh contains:
>>
>> TYPE="FreeBSD"
>> REVISION="9.2"
>> BRANCH="RELEASE-p4"
>>
>> /etc/hosts contains:
>>
>> # $FreeBSD: release/9.2.0/etc/hosts 109997 2003-01-28 21:29:23Z
>> # dbaker $
>>
>> and the kernel contains the new version:
>>
>> # strings /boot/kernel/kernel | grep RELEASE|grep 9
>> @(#)FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE-p4 #0: Tue Apr 8 18:08:22 UTC 2014
>> FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE-p4 #0: Tue Apr 8 18:08:22 UTC 2014
>> 9.2-RELEASE-p4
>>
>> However, uname somehow shows the wrong version:
>>
>> # uname -a
>> FreeBSD localhost.localdomain 9.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE #0
>> r243825: Tue Dec 4 09:23:10 UTC 2012 root at
>> farrell.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
>>
>> So where does uname get the version number from? Which file(s) might
>> not have been upgraded? Thank you!
>
>There was a thread about it last october. I c&p part of my answer here:
>
>--
>From uname and uname(3) man pages,
>
>"An environment variable composed of the string UNAME_ followed by any
> flag to the uname utility (except for -a) will allow the corresponding
> data to be set to the contents of the environment variable."
>
>The -a flag behave as though the options -m, -n, -r, -s, and -v were specified. Freebsd-update can modify /root/.profile or better, /etc/profile, adding those environment variables with correct and update values.
>--
>
Thank you! My current /etc/profile is the default one, its content is:
# $FreeBSD: release/9.2.0/etc/profile 208116 2010-05-15 17:49:56Z jilles $
... comments omitted here.
# mesg y
LANG=en_US.UTF-8; export LANG
GDM_LANG=en_US.UTF-8; export GDM_LANG
My /root/.profile is also the default one, its content is:
# $FreeBSD: release/9.2.0/etc/root/dot.profile 199243 2009-11-13 05:54:55Z ed $
#
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:~/bin
export PATH
HOME=/root
export HOME
TERM=${TERM:-xterm}
export TERM
PAGER=more
export PAGER
Do you want me to add the following to /etc/profile ?
UNAME_v="FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE #0 r243825: Tue Dec 4 09:23:10 UTC 2012 root@farrell.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC"
export UNAME_v
UNAME_r="9.2-RELEASE"
export UNAME_r
But, then do I have to manually change this version number in /etc/profile for each upgrade in the future? That would be quite a hassle for each upgrade to -p5, -p6, ... etc. Is that the way to go?
I also tried:
# unsetenv UNAME_r
but "uname -r" still shows the incorrect "9.1-RELEASE" even though all other files mentioned above are in "9.2-RELEASE".
So still, where did uname get that incorrect version number?
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