Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 14:03:11 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Walter Hop <freebsd@spam.lifeforms.nl> Subject: Re: Small motd nit in 10.1 Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1410301400480.49641@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <201410301554.03504.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <8C81A636-D2B5-4EFB-9EA3-58E88E16CA94@spam.lifeforms.nl> <alpine.BSF.2.11.1410291809280.16887@wonkity.com> <93E9657A-737E-4705-A0E5-01F9E9110261@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> <201410301554.03504.jhb@freebsd.org>
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On Thu, 30 Oct 2014, John Baldwin wrote: > On Wednesday, October 29, 2014 8:47:42 pm Paul Mather wrote: >> >> The potential confusion arises because freebsd-version agrees with >> freebsd-update, but uname doesn't always. If you track FreeBSD via >> freebsd-update, uname only gets bumped when the kernel is updated. If >> you want to know which version of FreeBSD you're running, which command >> is more accurate: freebsd-version or uname -a? I would argue the former >> (freebsd-version). > > A fact I continue to bemoan. :( > >> If you track FreeBSD via source updates, freebsd-version and uname -a >> match each other, so long as you update kernel and world together. >> >> Consider the system below, updated using freebsd-update after the last >> advisory causing an update to 10.0-RELEASE: >> >> ===== >> % freebsd-version >> 10.0-RELEASE-p11 >> % uname -a >> FreeBSD chumby.dlib.vt.edu 10.0-RELEASE-p10 FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE-p10 #0: Mon > Oct 20 12:38:37 UTC 2014 root@amd64- > builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 >> ===== > > The problem, of course, is that if you are obtaining the version for a bug > report or an e-mail to the lists, the latter output provides more details > (e.g. architecture as Warren noted) even though it is stale due to > implementation details of freebsd-update. There is room on that line to show both: Show details of the FreeBSD installation: uname -a ; freebsd-version Or some combination like that.
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