Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 07:48:41 -0500 From: "Michael B. Eichorn" <ike@michaeleichorn.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wrong patchlevel after freebsd-update install? Message-ID: <1418474921.2156.20.camel@michaeleichorn.com> In-Reply-To: <7B7C7B31-B89F-4770-8DA1-CE7D0BD513EB@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> References: <201412120930.sBC9UUEF041702@mech-as221.men.bris.ac.uk> <7B7C7B31-B89F-4770-8DA1-CE7D0BD513EB@gromit.dlib.vt.edu>
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On Fri, 2014-12-12 at 10:23 -0500, Paul Mather wrote: > On Dec 12, 2014, at 4:30 AM, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bris.ac.uk> wrote: > > > On 10.0-RELEASE-p12 amd64 I updated to p13 as: > > > > freebsd-update fetch > > freebsd-update install > > reboot > > > > However, uname still shows the old patchlevel: > > > > # uname -a > > FreeBSD 001cc0f01814.anet.bris.ac.uk 10.0-RELEASE-p12 FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE-p12 #0: Tue Nov 4 05:07:17 UTC 2014 root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 > > # > > > > But freebsd-update fetch suggests I'm already at p13: > > > > # freebsd-update fetch > > Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 5 mirrors found. > > Fetching metadata signature for 10.0-RELEASE from update5.freebsd.org... done. > > Fetching metadata index... done. > > Inspecting system... done. > > Preparing to download files... done. > > > > No updates needed to update system to 10.0-RELEASE-p13. > > # > > > > So has the update p12 -> p13 succeeded? > > What does "freebsd-version" report? If it returns 10.0-RELEASE-p13 then your freebsd-update succeeded. > > > Please clarify > > It's my understanding that uname only gets updated when freebsd-update updates the kernel. I think that's why freebsd-version was introduced. > > > > > Thanks > > > > Anton > > Cheers, > > Paul. > > I have similar question about the 10.1-RELEASE-p1 update I ran the update as: # freebsd-update fetch # freebsd-update install # ezjail-admin update -u # reboot Yet when I run: # freebsd-version -ku 10.1-RELEASE 10.1-RELEASE-p1 # uname -a FreeBSD terra.michaeleichorn.com 10.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE #0 r274401: Tue Nov 11 21:02:49 UTC 2014 root@releng1.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 Do I have a problem here or is this the expected behavior? I thought that 'freebsd-version -k' would report the new patchlevel even if there was not a kernel update. For the record 'freebsd-update fetch' and 'freebsd-update install' report no updates to install. Regards, Ike
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