Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 15:26:22 +0100 From: Roberto Nunnari <roberto.nunnari@supsi.ch> To: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: patches and uname -a Message-ID: <43C6670E.5000500@supsi.ch> In-Reply-To: <8E000CF1-7D7E-4E63-8EE5-BB87BF9C44E8@submonkey.net> References: <43C64C52.9020209@supsi.ch> <8E000CF1-7D7E-4E63-8EE5-BB87BF9C44E8@submonkey.net>
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Thank you Ceri and Jaap for your time. Ceri, edit src/sys/conf/newvers.sh and replace BRANCH="RELEASE-p23" with BRANCH="RELEASE-p24" would be enough?? Best regards. Ceri Davies wrote: > > On 12 Jan 2006, at 12:32, Roberto Nunnari wrote: > >> Hello. >> >> Please also answer to my mailbox as I'm not on the list. >> >> After upgrading by sources and build world, uname correctly >> reports the current version of the system >> >> Today for the first time I applied all the relevant patches >> instead and all went well. The box was 5.3-RELEASE-p23. >> >> The applied patches should correspond to 5.3-RELEASE-p24, but: >> >> # uname -r >> 5.3-RELEASE-p23 >> >> and: >> >> # sysctl kern.version >> kern.version: FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p23 #0: Tue Jan 3 15:40:08 CET 2006 >> ... >> >> I'd like to be able to see the correct version using >> 'uname -r'.. >> >> Does anybody know how can you make uname report the >> real version? What if you recompile the kernel after >> patching the system? Would that do the trick? > > > Recompiling the kernel is the correct way to change the output of > uname(1), but before you do so, you should be aware that that patch > number is taken from the BRANCH variable in src/sys/conf/newvers.sh. > Check that it says "5.3-RELEASE-p24" before you waste time recompiling > the kernel. > > Ceri
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