Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 09:52:51 -0800 From: James <james@slohall.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Daniel Bye <freebsd-questions@slightlystrange.org> Subject: Re: freebsd-update patch not being applied Message-ID: <20090301095251.52c4de64.james@slohall.com> In-Reply-To: <20090301174626.GA1643@torus.slightlystrange.org> References: <20090301085048.2a5d6f3d.james@slohall.com> <20090301174626.GA1643@torus.slightlystrange.org>
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On Sun, 1 Mar 2009 17:46:27 +0000 "Daniel Bye" <danielby@slightlystrange.org> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 08:50:48AM -0800, James wrote: > > For some reason when i type uname -a on my desktop, which is running 7.1, all I see is this: > > > > $ uname -a > > FreeBSD me 7.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE #0: Thu Jan 1 08:58:24 UTC 2009 root@driscoll.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 > > > > But if i run freebsd-update fetch i get this > > > > $ sudo freebsd-update fetch > > Password: > > Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 2 mirrors found. > > Fetching metadata signature for 7.1-RELEASE from update2.FreeBSD.org... done. > > Fetching metadata index... done. > > Inspecting system... done. > > Preparing to download files... done. > > > > No updates needed to update system to 7.1-RELEASE-p3. > > > > Everytime the application has said there are new updates i installed them with `freebsd-update install`, > > and eventually i got around to restarting, but when I log back in and type `uname -a` I get the same message > > as above: `7.1-RELEASE #0` > > > > Now on a seperate system running 7.0 I have a similar problem where uname -a always reports `7.0-RELEASE-p7 #0` > > even though freebsd-update reports > > Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 2 mirrors found. > > Fetching metadata signature for 7.0-RELEASE from update2.FreeBSD.org... done. > > Fetching metadata index... done. > > Inspecting system... done. > > Preparing to download files... done. > > > > No updates needed to update system to 7.0-RELEASE-p10. > > > > Now I'm new to the BSD world, but i do have a fair amount of experience with Linux. What I am trying to figure > > out here, is why uname -a reports a different patch number than it should. > > This is the normal behaviour for freebsd-update. The patch level number will > only bump if an update affects the kernel. The most recent updates for 7.1 > didn't touch the kernel, so you still see the previous (somewhat confusing) > version number. However, if the next update requires that the kernel be > replaced, then you'll see the patch level number increase. > > Hope this makes sense... > > Dan > > -- > Daniel Bye > _ > ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) > - against HTML, vCards and X > - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ > Makes perfect sense, thanks for replying, i appreciate the help James -- James <james@slohall.com>
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