From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 12 20:04:08 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DA9216A41F for ; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 20:04:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from roberto.nunnari@supsi.ch) Received: from mail3.ticino.com (mail3.ticino.com [195.190.166.58]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31F7343D48 for ; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 20:04:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from roberto.nunnari@supsi.ch) X-Spam-Score: 1 Received: from [192.168.1.6] (unverified [62.48.103.172]) by mail3.ticino.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 6.1.22) with ESMTP id ; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 21:04:04 +0100 Message-ID: <43C6B637.9050006@supsi.ch> Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 21:04:07 +0100 From: Roberto Nunnari User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 X-Accept-Language: it-ch, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ceri Davies References: <43C64C52.9020209@supsi.ch> <8E000CF1-7D7E-4E63-8EE5-BB87BF9C44E8@submonkey.net> <43C6670E.5000500@supsi.ch> <20060112143730.GJ28781@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <20060112143730.GJ28781@submonkey.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: {Spam?} Re: patches and uname -a 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: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 20:04:08 -0000 Ceri Davies wrote: > On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 03:26:22PM +0100, Roberto Nunnari wrote: > >>Ceri Davies wrote: >> >>>On 12 Jan 2006, at 12:32, Roberto Nunnari wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Hello. >>>> >>>>Please also answer to my mailbox as I'm not on the list. >>>> >>>>After upgrading by sources and build world, uname correctly >>>>reports the current version of the system >>>> >>>>Today for the first time I applied all the relevant patches >>>>instead and all went well. The box was 5.3-RELEASE-p23. >>>> >>>>The applied patches should correspond to 5.3-RELEASE-p24, but: >>>> >>>># uname -r >>>>5.3-RELEASE-p23 >>>> >>>>and: >>>> >>>># sysctl kern.version >>>>kern.version: FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p23 #0: Tue Jan 3 15:40:08 CET 2006 >>>>... >>>> >>>>I'd like to be able to see the correct version using >>>>'uname -r'.. >>>> >>>>Does anybody know how can you make uname report the >>>>real version? What if you recompile the kernel after >>>>patching the system? Would that do the trick? >>> >>> >>>Recompiling the kernel is the correct way to change the output of >>>uname(1), but before you do so, you should be aware that that patch >>>number is taken from the BRANCH variable in src/sys/conf/newvers.sh. >>>Check that it says "5.3-RELEASE-p24" before you waste time recompiling >>>the kernel. >>> >>>Ceri >> >>Thank you Ceri and Jaap for your time. >> >>Ceri, edit src/sys/conf/newvers.sh and replace >> >>BRANCH="RELEASE-p23" >>with >>BRANCH="RELEASE-p24" >> >>would be enough?? > > > That would work, but if you don't already have that string then there is > a possibility that you don't have all the patches, so please only change > it if you are %100 sure that you have. I cannot stress that enough. > > Ceri I checked the patches (cpio.patch ee.patch texindex5x.patch) and none of them tries to change src/sys/conf/newvers.sh nor src/UPDATING Also, I checked the output while applying the patches and there were no errors. So.. as I didn't find any other patches that are post p23, I edited newvers.sh, build a new kernel and rebooted. uname -r is now happy. Thank you again. Best regards. -- Robi