From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 18 7: 9:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (whale.sunbay.crimea.ua [212.110.138.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 946E637B403 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 07:09:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ru@localhost) by whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (8.11.6/8.11.2) id f9IE8lM41039; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 17:08:47 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru) Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 17:08:47 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Jim Freeze Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why does OSTYPE=freebsd4.3 for FBSD4.4R? Message-ID: <20011018170847.C40049@sunbay.com> References: <20011018084043.B77063@freebsdportal.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011018084043.B77063@freebsdportal.com>; from jfreeze@freebsdportal.com on Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 08:40:43AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 08:40:43AM -0400, Jim Freeze wrote: > Hi: > > I have FBSD 4.4R installed. While looking at the environment > variables today, I noticed that OSTYPE=freebsd4.3. > > Is this correct? > > env > ... > MACHTYPE=i386--freebsd4.3 > HOSTTYPE=i386 > OSTYPE=freebsd4.3 > ... > Reinstall the bash port. These indicate for which OS the port/package was built. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message