Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 09:07:07 +0200 From: Eduardo Morras <emorrasg@yahoo.es> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: John <aqqa11@earthlink.net> Subject: Re: where does uname get version number? Message-ID: <20140417090707.97aec14863b12da0685c2103@yahoo.es> In-Reply-To: <4357625.1397705947117.JavaMail.root@elwamui-hybrid.atl.sa.earthlink.net> References: <4357625.1397705947117.JavaMail.root@elwamui-hybrid.atl.sa.earthlink.net>
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On Wed, 16 Apr 2014 23:39:06 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
John <aqqa11@earthlink.net> wrote:
> 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?
No, freebsd-update should update your /etc/profile and UNAME_* system vars.
>
> 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?
If there's no UNAME_* defined, you undefined it with #unsetenv, uname reads them from /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/$KERNEL/vers{ion,.c} files. Trond suggest to delete them before rebuilding, so they get updated too, nice suggestion. Mine sets different information in UNAME_* and vers{ion,.c} files. This discrepancy should be avoided.
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Eduardo Morras <emorrasg@yahoo.es>
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