From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 7 07:20:17 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6F791065675 for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2011 07:20:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhelfman@experts-exchange.com) Received: from mail.experts-exchange.com (mail.experts-exchange.com [72.29.183.251]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2EA68FC29 for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2011 07:20:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.experts-exchange.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.experts-exchange.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E37206EFEAB; Fri, 7 Oct 2011 00:02:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=e-e.com; h= user-agent:organization:in-reply-to:content-disposition :content-type:content-type:mime-version:references:message-id :subject:subject:from:from:date:date:received:received:received; s=ee; t=1317970952; x=1319785352; bh=aIWqHYGk6BQFr++7RiaBAlUbYL z9adDlvHIC0E/fUig=; b=Bz9IRCIkZnIoOx1czCX79RVzB5JajpRqF0K8vOs7Rk sTzlw0tnPXC9tNPPNnf5JFdlHBCAd+Caujj/UfqXUeju8x5ALq3pHYrbkOSBIl6I 0ITdNpmUhtcdclTJvWXYs+gQOQ2S2VG6WbGsKcr9i7zmLbRndhXVjYVqLZpz9jht k= X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at experts-exchange.com Received: from mail.experts-exchange.com ([127.0.0.1]) by mail.experts-exchange.com (mail.experts-exchange.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id LsJsAF8YbCDs; Fri, 7 Oct 2011 00:02:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from experts-exchange.com (unknown [192.168.103.122]) by mail.experts-exchange.com (Postfix) with SMTP id BFE756EF089; Fri, 7 Oct 2011 00:02:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: (nullmailer pid 65483 invoked by uid 1001); Fri, 07 Oct 2011 07:01:15 -0000 Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 00:01:15 -0700 From: Jason Helfman To: n dhert Message-ID: <20111007070114.GA46357@eggman.experts-exchange.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE Organization: Experts-Exchange, LLC. http://www.experts-exchange.com X-Living-The-Dream: I love the SLO Life! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FBSD82 sec patch -p4, uname still -p3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 07:20:17 -0000 On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 08:55:26AM +0200, n dhert thus spake: >I just applied security patch -p4 (last week -p3) to a freebsd 8.2 system >(generic kernel) ># freebsd-update fetch ># freebsd-update install ># ls -la /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh >has date of today and contains >REVISION="8.2" >BRANCH="RELEASE-p4" >reboot ># uname -r >8.2-RELEASE-p3 >still shows -p3 not -p4 ># uname -a >FreeBSD mcsbu.cde.ua.ac.be 8.2-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p3 #0: Tue Sep >27 18:45:57 UTC 2011 >root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 > >why? >-p4 was a small patch to linux emulation mode, which I don't have installed >is this why it is still -p3 ? If your kernel wasn't touched during the update, then uname won't bump. -jgh -- Jason Helfman System Administrator experts-exchange.com http://www.experts-exchange.com/M_4830110.html E4AD 7CF1 1396 27F6 79DD 4342 5E92 AD66 8C8C FBA5