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From: Kurt Jaeger <lists@opsec.eu>
To: Marko Cupa?? <marko.cupac@mimar.rs>
Subject: Re: freebsd-update to 9.2-RELEASE-p8 loop
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Hi!

> I used freebsd-update to update from 9.2-RELEASE-p7 to 9.2-RELEASE-p8
> and rebooted.
> 
> After reboot, uname -a shows 9.2-RELEASE-p7, but I've seen this before
> and consider it normal.

p8 did not touch the kernel, therefore there is no update in the uname output.

Why it again and again updates linker.hints, I don't know.

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