freebsd-update says -p3, but i've got -p2

David Newman dnewman at networktest.com
Sat Jul 19 15:09:06 UTC 2008


>> Mark Boolootian wrote:

>>> which leads me to conclude I've got -p3, including the BIND update.
>>> However 'uname -a' says something else:
>>>
>>> FreeBSD mumble.ucsc.edu 7.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p2 #0: Wed 
>>> Jun 18 07:33:20 UTC 2008     
>>> root at i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
>>>
>>> And although /usr/sbin/named has been updated, it appears not to have
>>> been upgraded:
>>>
>>> $ /usr/sbin/named -v
>>> BIND 9.4.2
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>>
>>>   
>>
>> You've got p3, don't worry. There was no kernel update in p3, hence 
>> you got the p2 GENERIC kernel. If you want uname to actually show p3,
>> you will have to recompile your kernel

Shouldn't freebsd-update do this, not only for the kernel and named and 
whatever else it updates?

I'm relatively new to freebsd-update, and while I appreciate its speed 
advantange over make buildworld/buildkernel, it's confusing when it 
applies updates but does not display correct version numbers.

dn



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