Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2022 10:41:40 +0000 From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: =?UTF-8?B?W0J1ZyAyNjU1OTRdIEl04oCZcyBoYXJkIHRvIGtub3cgd2hhdCB2?= =?UTF-8?B?ZXJzaW9uIG9mIEZyZWVCU0QgeW91IGFyZSBydW5uaW5nIChwcmltYXJpbHkg?= =?UTF-8?B?YSBkb2N1bWVudGF0aW9uIGlzc3VlKQ==?= Message-ID: <bug-265594-227@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D265594 Bug ID: 265594 Summary: It=E2=80=99s hard to know what version of FreeBSD you a= re running (primarily a documentation issue) Product: Base System Version: CURRENT Hardware: Any OS: Any Status: New Severity: Affects Many People Priority: --- Component: misc Assignee: bugs@FreeBSD.org Reporter: rwatson@FreeBSD.org End users often want to know what version of FreeBSD they are running. But understanding what version is being used is quite hard once you=E2=80=99ve = used freebsd-update, as the documentation and tooling is inconsistent and/or has gaps: - The uname(1) man page represents that the =E2=80=9C-r=E2=80=9D argument = will "Write the current release level of the operating system to standard output.=E2=80=9D.= However, that is actually the value of the OS version returned by kern.osrelease, wh= ich may not be the version you have installed via freebsd-update. - The freebsd-version(1) command will tell you the version you have install= ed. But it is not cross-referenced from uname(1), even thought freebsd-version(= 1) cross references uname(1). - The freebsd-update(8) command has no way to print the current version -- e.g., =E2=80=9Cstatus=E2=80=9D or =E2=80=9Cversion=E2=80=9D that I can find= , and it would be the most obvious place to look to find out the installed version. It cross references neither uname(1) nor freebsd-version(1). Obviously, the notion of =E2=80=9Cversion=E2=80=9D is complex, but some eff= ort has been gone to to neatly hide the complexity of that idea in the freebsd-version(1) comman= d. It seems like it would be good to: 1. Make sure freebsd-version(1) is well cross referenced from other tools t= hat relate to OS version (e.g., uname(1), freebsd-update(8)). 2. To make that version information easy to get via update management tools, such as freebsd-update(8), which might ideally wrap freebsd-version(1) to provide a =E2=80=9Cversion=E2=80=9D or =E2=80=9Cstatus=E2=80=9D mode. 3. To slightly clarify in uname(1) that =E2=80=9C-r=E2=80=9D is not exactly= the =E2=80=9Ccurrent release level=E2=80=9D as most users would imagine such a term to mean. --=20 You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.=
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