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Date:      Wed, 10 Jun 2015 12:43:05 +0200
From:      Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net>
To:        Kurt Jaeger <lists@opsec.eu>,  Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: wrong patch number in releng/10.1?
Message-ID:  <557814B9.9010008@madpilot.net>
In-Reply-To: <20150610103456.GO49099@home.opsec.eu>
References:  <DB03C1AD-816C-41DA-BCC7-D9BE9C2119BD@FreeBSD.org> <82E830BE-8B28-479A-8CBE-78D192592E26@FreeBSD.org> <55780401.7050205@multiplay.co.uk> <20150610102345.GN49099@home.opsec.eu> <55781141.2070005@multiplay.co.uk> <20150610103456.GO49099@home.opsec.eu>

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On 06/10/15 12:34, Kurt Jaeger wrote:
> Hi!
> 
>> You kernel hasn't been rebuilt then.
> 
> Yes, but normally, freebsd-update provides me with an updated kernel.
> 
> The update provides (among other stuff):
> 
> /boot/kernel/zfs.ko
> /boot/kernel/zfs.ko.symbols
> /lib/libzpool.so.2
> 
> so it does not touch the value uname reports until a new kernel is built. 
> 
> It's surprising, but I can live with that.

It's always been like this with binary updates AFAIK. The kernel binary
gets updated only if needed.

There is the freebsd-version(1) command to get information about the
userland version, which should always be equal or bigger than the kernel
version.

-- 
Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net>



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