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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