pkg_upgrade?
Kris Kennaway
kris at obsecurity.org
Tue May 30 15:28:19 PDT 2006
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 06:14:32PM -0400, Joe wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 04:51:51PM -0400, Joe wrote:
> >> [...]
> >>It failed to update expat however, because it kept looking in the
> >>6.0-RELEASE paths. I presume this is because even though the binary
> >>upgrade of the base to 6.1 went well, uname, etc., think I still have a
> >>6.0 machine. So where is the *real* version id stored and how can it be
> >>(should it be?) safely modified?
> >
> >It's reported by the kernel, so if it's still saying 6.0-RELEASE then
> >that's what you're still running.
>
> I don't have access to the system right now, but after the sysinstall I
> looked at some of the files in /bin and saw that most had a date of May
> 6, 2006 (or thereabouts) so I assumed that meant the binary upgrade had
> been successful. How can I verify that the actual kernel was upgraded?
> Also, I haven't been able to locate much information about a binary
> upgrade in the Handbook. The only reference was in the INSTALL.htm in
> the release directory.
ls -l /boot/kernel
Kris
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