Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2013 22:37:25 -0600 (MDT) From: Mike Brown <mike@skew.org> To: Eduardo Morras <emorrasg@yahoo.es> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.4-RELEASE-p12 Message-ID: <201310100437.r9A4bPhW086453@chilled.skew.org> In-Reply-To: <20131009153605.3c6524c8a1ce44965a54ae6a@yahoo.es>
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Eduardo Morras wrote: > [...] uname -a should give the correct answer. Has uname other utility than > show information about the operating system implementation? No, and it must > be accurate. That's what I thought, but when I asked about it here last year, I was told that this is the way things are; our expectations of uname are at fault. I believe if he were to compile his own kernel, it would say -p12. Suggestions were made for how to deal with it, but I don't know if they were ever followed up on. They wouldn't affect 7.x in any case. Start reading the thread here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2012-May/240666.html
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