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Date:      Sat, 07 Jan 2012 11:55:23 +0200
From:      Vrachnis Ilias-Dimitrios <vrachil@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: freebsd-update problems
Message-ID:  <4F08168B.7070803@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4F07F0BC.7060309@ish.com.au>
References:  <4F07F0BC.7060309@ish.com.au>

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On 01/07/2012 09:14, Aristedes Maniatis wrote:
>  [...]
>
> 2. I didn't touch mergemaster.mtree manually. Well, I don't think I did.
> But even if I had, could the tool give me some clue as to how to proceed
> from here? Do I now have to go back to csup to update my system and
> never be able to use freebsd-update again? Is there a trick to fool
> freebsd-update into overwriting this file which I don't think I touched?
>
> It would be nice if freebsd-update could be more helpful about what the
> user should do next when it finds an error.
>
>
>
> Thanks
> Ari
>

uname only reports the kernel info. I don't remember if the p6-8 updates 
touched anything in the kernel, so the kernel probably wasn't rebuilt.

You can check in the file /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh, there is a 
variable named BRANCH. That should tell you which was your last update.


Regards,
-vid



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