Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 14:05:15 -0500 From: Tom Worster <fsb@thefsb.org> To: Jason Helfman <jhelfman@e-e.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: determining freebsd-update status Message-ID: <C996980D.F2C5%fsb@thefsb.org> In-Reply-To: <20110304180900.GU76063@eggman.experts-exchange.com>
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thanks for the answers, jason. two more questions below. On 3/4/11 1:09 PM, "Jason Helfman" <jhelfman@e-e.com> wrote: >On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 11:32:11AM -0500, Tom Worster thus spake: >>to determine roughly where a server is in its updates (we're running only >>RELEASE) i do: >> >>1 - check the 1st 4 fields of the tag file in the freebsd-update working >>dir. > >Just because the 1st 4 fields are populated, doesn't necessarily imply it >is >running at that version. The tag is stating what it has recently "seen" >as >available on the update server, but that doesn't mean that those updates >have been installed. ok. >> >>2 - check the output of freebsd-update IDS. >> >>is it the case that freebsd-update IDS checks base system status relative >>to what's referenced in the tag file? > >No. The hash index file is pulled from the update server for the >installed >release, and your system is compared with that. "the installed release" being what exactly? and how does freebsd-update determine what it is?
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