Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 12:07:20 -0500 From: Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.4-RELEASE-p12 Message-ID: <1381424840.11040.32473177.511919E0@webmail.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <20131009153605.3c6524c8a1ce44965a54ae6a@yahoo.es> References: <CAJxePNKeX9Jw3OcuiQkZZM3Axn%2BTtKV2dYCoou0s1L%2B6x8rncw@mail.gmail.com> <201310090332.r993We9X098245@chilled.skew.org> <20131009153605.3c6524c8a1ce44965a54ae6a@yahoo.es>
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On Wed, Oct 9, 2013, at 8:36, Eduardo Morras wrote: > On Tue, 8 Oct 2013 21:32:39 -0600 (MDT) > Mike Brown <mike@skew.org> wrote: > > > alexus wrote: > > > ok, I just did fetch & install and got bumped from p5 to p9 > > > > > > # uname -a > > > FreeBSD XX.XXXXX.org 7.4-RELEASE-p9 FreeBSD 7.4-RELEASE-p9 #0: Mon Jun 11 > > > 19:47:58 UTC 2012 > > > root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC > > > amd64 > > > # > > > > > > can I take it all the way to -p12? > > > > -p10 through -p12 probably didn't involve any kernel changes. Bumping the > > reported patchlevel isn't considered important enough to warrant building a > > new kernel. > > That there's no kernel changes doesn't mean that uname -a info is not > updated. You are incorrect. The output of uname -a is taken from the kernel and cannot be updated without installing a new kernel. The good news is that FreeBSD 10 will ship with a new utility called freebsd-version which will provide a better way of identifying if your system is up to date. >From the commit message: Introduce the /libexec/freebsd-version script, which is intended to be used by auditing tools to determine the userland patch level when it differs from what `uname -r` reports. This can happen when the system is kept up-to-date using freebsd-update and the last SA did not touch the kernel, or when a new kernel has been installed but the system has not yet rebooted. http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/bin/freebsd-version/ By the way, it will be /bin/freebsd-version as it has been relocated since the import into head.
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