From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 4 18:12:22 2011 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 C2B70106564A for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2011 18:12:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhelfman@experts-exchange.com) Received: from mail.experts-exchange.com (mail.experts-exchange.com [72.29.183.251]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EF588FC08 for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2011 18:12:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.experts-exchange.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.experts-exchange.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B3D46FDCAC; Fri, 4 Mar 2011 10:12:22 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=e-e.com; h= user-agent:in-reply-to:content-disposition:content-type :content-type:mime-version:references:message-id:subject:subject :from:from:date:date:received:received:received; s=ee; t= 1299262342; x=1301076742; bh=ECajuLyRh9Mlfh56lw32aBlhxkLTTlUceiG mvvDROs4=; b=pKxyc1PYrAFob2hvexvgt/I1im85f+lo2IpCecC8sC3eN2Lr+je 2X3HHsZuXdS1oyDtlPfySpFWoNwKo9+nRt+mfi4Sp97QctdyV0c7J3Hp74bcY6Mb I6cUWTdh78agLPDVQNEOBqk0uFhftsj2N4IzKm7pUbJNWyJFxObG6y4c= X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at experts-exchange.com Received: from mail.experts-exchange.com ([127.0.0.1]) by mail.experts-exchange.com (mail.experts-exchange.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id HXkS5X5yf4I4; Fri, 4 Mar 2011 10:12:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from experts-exchange.com (unknown [72.29.180.81]) by mail.experts-exchange.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 1A3166FDCA1; Fri, 4 Mar 2011 10:12:22 -0800 (PST) Received: (nullmailer pid 76393 invoked by uid 1001); Fri, 04 Mar 2011 18:09:00 -0000 Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 10:09:00 -0800 From: Jason Helfman To: Tom Worster Message-ID: <20110304180900.GU76063@eggman.experts-exchange.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE X-Living-The-Dream: I love the SLO Life! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: determining freebsd-update status 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: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 18:12:22 -0000 On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 11:32:11AM -0500, Tom Worster thus spake: >to determine roughly where a server is in its updates (we're running only >RELEASE) i do: > >1 - check the 1st 4 fields of the tag file in the freebsd-update working >dir. Just because the 1st 4 fields are populated, doesn't necessarily imply it is running at that version. The tag is stating what it has recently "seen" as available on the update server, but that doesn't mean that those updates have been installed. > >2 - check the output of freebsd-update IDS. > >is it the case that freebsd-update IDS checks base system status relative >to what's referenced in the tag file? No. The hash index file is pulled from the update server for the installed release, and your system is compared with that. > >tia >tom > > >_______________________________________________ >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" > -jgh