Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 04:12:16 +1100 From: andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com> To: byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: why does freebsd-update and uname report different patch levels? Message-ID: <20171114171215.lo4j4fvpxlstxdtb@ozzmosis.com> In-Reply-To: <4432633d41c0c5fcf575fdae0af60245.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> References: <4432633d41c0c5fcf575fdae0af60245.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca>
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On Tue 2017-11-14 12:04:19 UTC-0500, James B. Byrne via freebsd-questions (freebsd-questions@freebsd.org) wrote: > We have recently completed upgrading all of our freebsd-11 systems to > 11.1. Now when we run freebsd-update fetch we see this: > > # freebsd-update fetch > src component not installed, skipped > Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found. > Fetching metadata signature for 11.1-RELEASE from > update5.freebsd.org... done. > Fetching metadata index... done. > Fetching 2 metadata patches.. done. > Applying metadata patches... done. > Fetching 2 metadata files... done. > Inspecting system... done. > Preparing to download files... done. > > No updates needed to update system to 11.1-RELEASE-p3. > > However, when we do 'uname -a' on the same system then we see this: > > FreeBSD inet13.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca 11.1-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD > 11.1-RELEASE-p1 #0: Wed Aug 9 11:55:48 UTC 2017 > root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 > > Why is there a difference in the reported patch level of the same system? 'uname -a' shows the version of the currently running kernel. 'freebsd-version -k' shows the version of the installed kernel. 'freebsd-version -u' shows the version of the installed userland. Often freebsd-update does not to patch the kernel. It is normal to see the kernel and userland at different patch levels.
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