Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 08:15:41 +0300 From: Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr> To: Vinny <vinny-mail-01+f.questions20071007@palaceofretention.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: freebsd-update port uname/internal patch level mismatch Message-ID: <4710547D.5080102@otenet.gr> In-Reply-To: <47103B95.7010606@palaceofretention.ca> References: <47103B95.7010606@palaceofretention.ca>
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Vinny wrote: > Hi, > > I noticed that using freebsd-update on a freshly installed > 6.2-RELEASE system yielded the following mismatch: > > $ uname -vp > FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p4 #0: Thu Apr 26 17:55:55 UTC 2007 > root@i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386 > > The results of running a freebsd-update fetch give: > > zcnew# freebsd-update fetch > Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 1 mirrors found. > Fetching metadata signature from update1.FreeBSD.org... done. > Fetching metadata index... done. > Inspecting system... done. > Preparing to download files... done. > > No updates needed to update system to 6.2-RELEASE-p8. > > So uname says -p4 and freebsd-update says -p8 > > I know -p8 is correct. The kernel was last patched in -p4 so > maybe the uname information isn't updated if the kernel > isn't updated...? > Exactly. But if you are willing to rebuild the kernel yourself (this is not a difficult process) you will get -p8 in uname too. > If there is something I'm doing wrong, please let me know. > > Thank you. > > Vinny Manolis
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