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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