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Date:      Tue, 10 Jul 2007 00:54:16 +0300
From:      Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr>
To:        Stevan Tiefert <stevan_tiefert@yahoo.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Patching with freebsd-update from 6.2-RELEASE-p4 to 6.2-RELEASE-p5
Message-ID:  <4692AE88.3030904@otenet.gr>
In-Reply-To: <1184014776.1863.4.camel@vagabund.w33>
References:  <1184014776.1863.4.camel@vagabund.w33>

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Stevan Tiefert wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I wanted to update via freebsd-update from 6.2-RELEASE-p4 to
> 6.2-RELEASE-p5. But like you can see my system is after the update still
> p4!
>
> I have saved a script of my doing:
>
> Script started on Mon Jul  9 22:55:13 2007
> vagabund# freebsd-update fetch
> Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 1 mirrors found.
> Fetching metadata signature from update1.FreeBSD.org... done.
> Fetching metadata index... done.
> Inspecting system... done.
> Preparing to download files... done.
>
> No updates needed to update system to 6.2-RELEASE-p5.
> vagabund# freebsd-update install
> No updates are available to install.
> Run '/usr/sbin/freebsd-update fetch' first.
> vagabund# uname -a
> FreeBSD vagabund.w33 6.2-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p4 #0: Thu Apr
> 26 17:40:53 UTC 2007
> root@i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
> vagabund# exit
> exit
>
> Script done on Mon Jul  9 22:55:45 2007
> $ 
>
>
> What is going wrong? Why he is not updating?
>
> With regards
> Stevan Tiefert
>
>   
It has updated. Recompile your kernel:

As root:

cd /usr/src
make buildkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC
make installkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC
reboot

uname -a will then show 6.2-RELEASE-p5



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