From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 3 18:48:16 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 E163D106568E for ; Thu, 3 May 2012 18:48:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from leslie@eskk.nu) Received: from mx1.bjare.net (mx1.bjare.net [212.31.160.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EEE18FC14 for ; Thu, 3 May 2012 18:48:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx1.bjare.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34A9E5E42A; Thu, 3 May 2012 20:47:22 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mx1.bjare.net X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -1.651 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.651 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[AWL=-0.653, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_PBL=0.905, RDNS_DYNAMIC=0.1, SPF_SOFTFAIL=0.596] Received: from mx1.bjare.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mx1.bjare.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 1kTgtRmI6jvT; Thu, 3 May 2012 20:47:19 +0200 (CEST) X-BN-MX1: ja X-BN-MailInfo: BjareNet Received: from bljbsd01.no-ip.org (c-195-216-041-102.ekt.thalamus.net [195.216.41.102]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.bjare.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5E2CE5E41C; Thu, 3 May 2012 20:47:19 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4FA2D2F1.3080706@eskk.nu> Date: Thu, 03 May 2012 20:48:17 +0200 From: Leslie Jensen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120502 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: andrew clarke References: <4FA2BAB3.4080007@eskk.nu> <4FA2BD91.2070402@eskk.nu> <20120503183539.GA48057@ozzmosis.com> In-Reply-To: <20120503183539.GA48057@ozzmosis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 18:48:17 -0000 2012-05-03 20:35, andrew clarke skrev: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Thank you :-) I have read similar answers and was partly aware of this. But I was just curious to why. I'll accept it and let a kernel rebuild be a part of my updates. /Leslie