From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 18 15:35:21 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 AA26C16A407 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:35:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nino80@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nz-out-0506.google.com [64.233.162.224]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6919813C4CA for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:35:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nino80@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id l8so182846nzf for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 08:35:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=ZVUMxgMlZTwC4A0YzVj4m/2D6urzmkXIXI9xvjgzNkZO5vrFWdDbG3njMo2GkOOBTiG+0pE6P+A2qhd+KfT8xW2kaFqsH2wy0zH/T2nLU1mIfWtoe6Ht0McbWsnl05YXAUHaDBVIt0n33eEhZkgY2gylmNkmIyAhuSou9zBC3gk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=KY8VA3nsZ/ZPNacSm5xdBa8zGQ1NYhE4Dx93oImVeEIMY6ESuFXISWCSUcsosJQLW9jZKjVPSt3r2u9jFM7/t/BEFP4qIOGSFwIJeNy3Jo4r0Dioo8eg8OarFDKoqerwjerICrU3dCftkulY9paMGWMvlBjZ66o/WRuHR0a4zMA= Received: by 10.115.79.1 with SMTP id g1mr1611683wal.1184772920091; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 08:35:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.235.1 with HTTP; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 08:35:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <92bcbda50707180835n78a0f027l2e71bf57fc30b4c7@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:35:20 +0200 From: "n j" To: "User Questions" In-Reply-To: <20070718123845.GB42311@slackbox.xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <92bcbda50707180446p63b91194m5850c19c9996ef5@mail.gmail.com> <20070718123845.GB42311@slackbox.xs4all.nl> 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 15:35:21 -0000 > 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. > > 1) change the update mechanism to update the kernel(s) version string Roland, thank you very much for the information. Digging a little deeper, I discovered two sysctl variables that contain this information: kern.osrelease: 6.2-RELEASE-p4 kern.version: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p4 #0: Thu Apr 26 17:40:53 UTC 2007 And the sysctl(8) man page reveals: Name Type Changeable kern.osrelease string no kern.version string no meaning that it is probably impossible to change these values without indeed recompiling the kernel. Regards, -- Nino