Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 15:52:23 -0600 (MDT) From: Mike Brown <mike@skew.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: freebsd-update not updating reported patchlevel Message-ID: <201205032152.q43LqNZO004512@chilled.skew.org>
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I installed 8.2-RELEASE when it was new, and have been just using freebsd-update since then. I run freebsd-update whenever there are new critical patches. But for some reason, my system's reported patchlevel number hasn't updated since p3. For example, with this latest OpenSSL security update, running 'freebsd-update fetch' says (among other things) "The following files will be updated as part of updating to 8.2-RELEASE-p7" and "WARNING: FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p3 is approaching its End-of-Life date. It is strongly recommended that you upgrade to a newer release within the next 2 months." So apparently it really thinks I'm at -p3, when I know I'm at -p6, and was at -p5 before that, and -p4 before that. The fact that the latest update only included the OpenSSL files confirms that the relevant files have been getting updated when I 'freebsd-update install'. But 'uname -r' continues to return "8.2-RELEASE-p3". Rebooting doesn't help. Is there something I need to do in order to bump the reported patchlevel? I thought this was supposed to happen automatically, since I didn't have to do anything to get it up to -p3. Thanks, Mike
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