pkg_upgrade?

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Wed May 31 08:02:59 PDT 2006


On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 07:51:38AM -0400, Joe wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 08:12:25PM -0400, Joe wrote:
> >>The .ko files have a Nov 3 2005 date, whereas the files in /boot 
> >>including the kernel directory have a May 6 2006 date.  I take it that 
> >>Nov 3 means 6.0-RELEASE since the announcement was done on Nov 4.  So, I 
> >>guess I'm back to the question of how to do a binary upgrade from 6.0 to 
> >>6.1 (and particularly where is this documented).  Should I attempt 
> >>another sysinstall Upgrade?
> >
> >Show me 
> >
> >sysctl kern.version
> 
> kern.version: FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Nov  3 09:36:13 UTC 2005
>     root at x64.samsco.home:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC

Yep, it's a 6.0-RELEASE kernel.  I noticed that you didn't actually
confirm whether /boot/kernel/kernel has the right date - only the
"files in /boot including the kernel directory".

Anyway, retry the binary upgrade as you say.

Kris
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