From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 1 17:52:08 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 518D0106564A for ; Sun, 1 Mar 2009 17:52:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from james@slohall.com) Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com (rv-out-0506.google.com [209.85.198.238]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D26E8FC0A for ; Sun, 1 Mar 2009 17:52:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from james@slohall.com) Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id f6so2093023rvb.43 for ; Sun, 01 Mar 2009 09:52:07 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.141.20.6 with SMTP id x6mr2465982rvi.159.1235929927699; Sun, 01 Mar 2009 09:52:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from icarus.slohall.com (24-205-231-169.dhcp.snlo.ca.charter.com [24.205.231.169]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id c20sm5195629rvf.1.2009.03.01.09.52.06 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 01 Mar 2009 09:52:07 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 09:52:51 -0800 From: James To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.6.0 (GTK+ 2.14.7; amd64-portbld-freebsd7.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Daniel Bye Subject: Re: freebsd-update patch not being applied 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: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 17:52:08 -0000 On Sun, 1 Mar 2009 17:46:27 +0000 "Daniel Bye" 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