Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 16:58:53 +0200 From: Rolf Nielsen <rmg1970swe@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: versions move backwards with freebsd-update(8) Message-ID: <53AAE3AD.5000701@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20140625143934.GA73214@potato.growveg.org> References: <20140625143934.GA73214@potato.growveg.org>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2014-06-25 16:39, John wrote: > Hello freebsd-questions, > > I have a netbook running as a small server, running freebsd > 10.0-RELEASE-p5. I've not used frebsd-update before, but thought I > would try as it's running RELEASE, and it would otherwise take ages > to upgrade as it's only an atom n450 with 4GB ram. It runs i386 > rather than amd64. <...> > > Last login: Wed Jun 25 03:00:59 2014 from 192.168.1.210 FreeBSD > 10.0-RELEASE-p4 (GENERIC) #0: Tue Jun 3 12:52:18 UTC 2014 > > ?!! > > $ uname -a FreeBSD samsung 10.0-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE-p4 > #0: Tue Jun 3 12:52:18 UTC 2014 > root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC > i386 > > I'm expecting p6 and instead got p4. What gives? > If there are no updates to the kernel, the version info will not be updated even if userland has been updated. If you previously updated by compiling source, the version info would have been updated, in your case to p5. However, if there have been no changes to the GENERIC kernel since p4, the reported version will revert to that after a binary update. Rolf -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJTquOtAAoJEB1OKfQ0M8TgRgMQAJ3NnFYOcYiR5uei83L3u+oT kZ+ooprqTtwlKRnJctQIR+AteSptbQbSC8T6l6DodsDukTLuaXZkwgNitLPivwAY /X/hlbHYCnDLLxyzVuNgZAHrxBF+tXsTFwOAflVXIecvXheLcRTKsWywriOvswlM duV8ftDLxL4cBgbtt75OCbHz0SFi2pGT0KSYy6qXZUvRqRR6BzDLczonxd7QGB56 ycC5mLYGy8K3SST58hakwDYHkWHh2i7yOWf63jJD941zmTRJwP+tvm/HyX7ay4Ky NviFzPKejeo51oiuTxAwwikLXPfJpDkih8Sw4GsSMCF8mLPAUKh+NOtlsNoTRQJ3 p9V3sBf3IqwI07v1GFeFOhBNgwtb8EPURQjKKWJJVXWWYiWBvGjQo0smwf2tyklG hmrEKYp28kj76UnyjO1nagx8jPaaY6ziUslwr9+DJSsy0Zy1h4AY9WNpgip23+MP YwC1mrQb0mbAslzEcs11qi63DpHV6mTlSvdMQEFjz2SA6hRyhnLgERREi/8tyZ6J 3Fvn1CuWZODJFGf79OXb8GJn5WilYaObgglOaHUvy5sn6tLM3yoGQh2paPGF82X1 k83WSoM9wkJ754jDCAZdOzOfoB346kfgSJKkancVwiNsi64RRrYonC+/vrbyMaE6 5DOLfijxz9pru3lmO3Kz =Ny76 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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