From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 3 18:35:42 2012 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 5AEA71065670 for ; Thu, 3 May 2012 18:35:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mail@ozzmosis.com) Received: from outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out5.iinet.net.au (outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out5.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.105]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C290B8FC0C for ; Thu, 3 May 2012 18:35:41 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av0EAEvPok98lKjS/2dsb2JhbABEsnuBB4IJAQEBAwEBAjc/BQsLDSgRFBQEMROICAQMum2CVIg9hRRjBJNPgi6BEoRSNYoqgnqBRA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.75,526,1330876800"; d="scan'208";a="349718583" Received: from unknown (HELO smtp.phoenix) ([124.148.168.210]) by outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out5.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 04 May 2012 02:35:40 +0800 Received: by smtp.phoenix (Postfix, from userid 1001) id E62CF329D; Fri, 4 May 2012 04:35:39 +1000 (EST) Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 04:35:39 +1000 From: andrew clarke To: Leslie Jensen Message-ID: <20120503183539.GA48057@ozzmosis.com> References: <4FA2BAB3.4080007@eskk.nu> <4FA2BD91.2070402@eskk.nu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4FA2BD91.2070402@eskk.nu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Follow up....Re: Updating for the FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-12:01.openssl 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: Thu, 03 May 2012 18:35:42 -0000 On Thu 2012-05-03 19:17:05 UTC+0200, Leslie Jensen (leslie@eskk.nu) wrote: > After a reboot my system now has the following label > > FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p3 #0 > > How come it downgrades the label from p6 to p3 when upgrading to p7. This is a FAQ. There's a thread about it here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2010-June/217031.html Short answer: The patch level (-p3) displayed by uname -r after a reboot will not change if freebsd-update has not touched the kernel. As far as I know there haven't been any patches to the 8.2-REL kernel since -p3. /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh is always updated by freebsd-update when there is an update. (Although now that I think about it that might not be true if you don't have the kernel sources installed?) Not exactly intuitive. Several Linux distros have a file named /etc/issue that shows the distro name and version. Perhaps this or something similar could be provided in future FreeBSD releases and updated by freebsd-update. $ cat /etc/issue Ubuntu 12.04 LTS \n \l Regards Andrew