Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 09:48:30 -0500 From: Tom Carpenter <tomc@bio.umass.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8.2-RELEASE-p4 Message-ID: <4EC9133E.9000209@bio.umass.edu> In-Reply-To: <4EC8AE3A.8000600@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <005301cca2b7$add11f20$09735d60$@co.ke> <4EC13877.3070704@bio.umass.edu> <4EC6BC2F.5030907@bio.umass.edu> <4EC6C506.2090206@infracaninophile.co.uk> <CA%2BQLa9Dckn4vpijFzSx_JgLnZZrJ7WEePBLReDzVwRzz6meLyQ@mail.gmail.com> <4EC8AE3A.8000600@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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If I'm the OP (original poster ?) I'm running GENERIC, and 'uname -a' output has remained '8.2-RELEASE-p4' despite running 'freebsd-update fetch', 'freebsd-update install', and then rebooting the system, over the past couple of weeks. I did download the source, ran 'freebsd-update fetch' and 'freebsd-update install' to update the source, then compiled a new kernel using the GENERIC config file, rebooted, and now 'uname -a' output shows the '-p4' version number, but I was trying to avoid compiling kernels. -Tom Carpenter On 11/20/2011 02:37 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 19/11/2011 23:26, Robert Simmons wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Matthew Seaman >> <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: >>> If you compile your own kernel, then freebsd-update will patch the >>> kernel sources, but leave you to rebuild and reinstall your customized >>> kernel. >>> >>> I don't know about the -p4 update. By rights it should have involved >>> updating the kernel by one or other of the two methods shown. So far >>> however, we've seen two reports questioning that[*] and none saying that >>> the -p4 update did in fact update the kernel. Which is suspicious, but >>> hardly conclusive. >> Do you compile your own kernel, or do you have a machine that uses >> GENERIC? If you do, what is the output of uname -a on it? > Me personally? No, in general I track -STABLE on my systems. Try > asking the OP. > > Matthew
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