From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 4 19:13:50 2011 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 301D6106564A for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2011 19:13:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhelfman@experts-exchange.com) Received: from mail.experts-exchange.com (mail.experts-exchange.com [72.29.183.251]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B61A8FC0A for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2011 19:13:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.experts-exchange.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.experts-exchange.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C196C6FDB8A; Fri, 4 Mar 2011 11:13:49 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=e-e.com; h= user-agent:in-reply-to:content-disposition:content-type :content-type:mime-version:references:message-id:subject:subject :from:from:date:date:received:received:received; s=ee; t= 1299266029; x=1301080429; bh=JG8klUmnDa/7PjbYL5JU6H2IcHY+tAdHLiO ION/9oWA=; b=kCjIIWfAo0sG+4bFm14yCOIHnBuD3jPY1i8X9oZDyEGJc+7Ciak noKkvt+2sRAD4w364fUNeUIMOhkSRxScDx2L+/Gw45M90/nADnl1ByZcLAy4+hKR eMhQNpzZsFPYRbmu1RGzBecf3o6d90c6JZIcCO7VsGLsOVlI2iyD1Raw= X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at experts-exchange.com Received: from mail.experts-exchange.com ([127.0.0.1]) by mail.experts-exchange.com (mail.experts-exchange.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id cqk-sMdqlkZ2; Fri, 4 Mar 2011 11:13:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from experts-exchange.com (unknown [72.29.180.81]) by mail.experts-exchange.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 8B0CE6FDB83; Fri, 4 Mar 2011 11:13:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (nullmailer pid 76698 invoked by uid 1001); Fri, 04 Mar 2011 19:10:27 -0000 Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 11:10:27 -0800 From: Jason Helfman To: Tom Worster Message-ID: <20110304191027.GV76063@eggman.experts-exchange.com> References: <20110304180900.GU76063@eggman.experts-exchange.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE X-Living-The-Dream: I love the SLO Life! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: determining freebsd-update status X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 19:13:50 -0000 On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 02:05:15PM -0500, Tom Worster thus spake: >thanks for the answers, jason. two more questions below. > np > >On 3/4/11 1:09 PM, "Jason Helfman" 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? What the system is running. > >and how does freebsd-update determine what it is? From the code, it appears to use `uname -r` and `uname -m`, for release and architecture, respectively. -jgh