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Date:      Thu, 7 Nov 2019 14:57:49 -0700
From:      "@lbutlr" <kremels@kreme.com>
To:        FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Versions mismatch
Message-ID:  <171A397C-F075-4096-B5AE-67DFC33CD32C@kreme.com>
In-Reply-To: <20191107183908.66a27fe2@gumby.homeunix.com>
References:  <78373B88-B6F4-40E3-9682-4290C7777106@kreme.com> <20191107183908.66a27fe2@gumby.homeunix.com>

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On 07 Nov 2019, at 11:39, RW via freebsd-questions =
<freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Nov 2019 11:00:21 -0700 @lbutlr wrote:
>=20
>> =F0=9F=91=B9 root@mail # freebsd-update fetch
>> Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found.
>> Fetching metadata signature for 11.3-RELEASE from
>> update2.freebsd.org... done. Fetching metadata index... done.
>> Inspecting system... done.
>> Preparing to download files... done.
>>=20
>> No updates needed to update system to 11.3-RELEASE-p4.
>> =F0=9F=91=B9 root@mail # uname -or
>> FreeBSD 11.3-RELEASE-p3
>>=20
>> (I had previously fetched, installed, and rebooted the machine)
>>=20
>> What did I forget?
>=20
> Probably nothing, freebsd-update only updates what needs updating, and
> some point releases don't affect both userland and the kernel. This =
can
> lead to uname getting the the wrong version from the kernel.
>=20
> freebsd-version(1) was created to solve this problem.

Thank you, I think I knew that once but had forgotten.



--=20
Mirrors contain infinity. Infinity contains more things than you think.
Everything, for a start. Including hunger. Because there's a million
billion images, but only one soul to go around. --Witches Abroad




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