From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 18 12:38:47 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22E8916A400 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:38:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr16.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr16.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99F6C13C481 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:38:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from slackbox.xs4all.nl (slackbox.xs4all.nl [213.84.242.160]) by smtp-vbr16.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l6ICcj9H002309; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 14:38:45 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: by slackbox.xs4all.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 0DC54B825; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 14:38:45 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 14:38:45 +0200 From: Roland Smith To: n j Message-ID: <20070718123845.GB42311@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Mail-Followup-To: n j , User Questions References: <92bcbda50707180446p63b91194m5850c19c9996ef5@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="BwCQnh7xodEAoBMC" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <92bcbda50707180446p63b91194m5850c19c9996ef5@mail.gmail.com> X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 X-GPG-Key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt X-GPG-Notice: If this message is not signed, don't assume I sent it! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: User Questions Subject: Re: freebsd-update question 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: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:38:47 -0000 --BwCQnh7xodEAoBMC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 01:46:51PM +0200, n j wrote: > Hello, >=20 > while updating my FreeBSD box, freebsd-update reported: >=20 > Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 1 mirrors found. > Fetching metadata signature from update1.FreeBSD.org... done. > ... > No updates needed to update system to 6.2-RELEASE-p6. >=20 > However, uname -a reveals: >=20 > FreeBSD my.hostname.here 6.2-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p4 #0: Thu > Apr 26 17:55:55 UTC 2007 > root@i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386 >=20 > which suggests that my system is still running 6.2-RELEASE-p4, not > 6.2-RELEASE-p6 that I guess it should be running. The box was rebooted > a couple of times, but still reports the same. >=20 > My question: am I reading something wrong here or is there a problem > with freebsd-update? More specifically, is the problem that the system > is running SMP? The cause for this confusion is the fact that patches 5 and 6 were for a userland utility (file) and a library (libarchive), not for the kernel. So for these patches, the kernel (which contains the release-level string) isn't rebuilt and so it isn't updated.=20 The only ways to fix this are: 1) change the update mechanism to update the kernel(s) version string 2) rebuild the kernel locally. Whether 1 is appropriate is up to the maintainer, I guess. You could submit a problem report about it with the send-pr tool. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --BwCQnh7xodEAoBMC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGngnUEnfvsMMhpyURAkE2AJ470VGSO3XGLRq+U1lzltMxuyRTDgCgiGJk z7uguOyBZ/kfvQft8NnNql4= =0MOi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --BwCQnh7xodEAoBMC--