From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 20 14:48:35 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 93599106564A for ; Sun, 20 Nov 2011 14:48:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tomc@bio.umass.edu) Received: from marlin.bio.umass.edu (marlin.bio.umass.edu [128.119.55.19]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 453C28FC18 for ; Sun, 20 Nov 2011 14:48:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (24-177-32-218.dhcp.oxfr.ma.charter.com [24.177.32.218]) (authenticated bits=0) by marlin.bio.umass.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id pAKEmUtq001288 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 20 Nov 2011 09:48:34 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4EC9133E.9000209@bio.umass.edu> Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 09:48:30 -0500 From: Tom Carpenter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.23) Gecko/20110922 Thunderbird/3.1.15 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <005301cca2b7$add11f20$09735d60$@co.ke> <4EC13877.3070704@bio.umass.edu> <4EC6BC2F.5030907@bio.umass.edu> <4EC6C506.2090206@infracaninophile.co.uk> <4EC8AE3A.8000600@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4EC8AE3A.8000600@infracaninophile.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (marlin.bio.umass.edu [128.119.55.19]); Sun, 20 Nov 2011 09:48:34 -0500 (EST) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.68 on 128.119.55.19 Subject: Re: 8.2-RELEASE-p4 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: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 14:48:35 -0000 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 >> 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