freebsd-update weirdness

Colin Percival cperciva at freebsd.org
Mon Apr 2 01:34:45 UTC 2007


Joao Barros wrote:
> I just finished installing my new silent router with 6.2R and took
> freebsd-update for a spin...
> 
> C3# uname -a
> FreeBSD C3.bsdtech.org 6.2-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p2 #0: Tue
> Feb 27 22:41:06 UTC 2007
> root at i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
> 
> C3# freebsd-update fetch
> [...]
> No updates needed to update system to 6.2-RELEASE-p3.

This may look odd, but it's actually correct.  The version number reported
by `uname` is the version number of the kernel, and the change from
6.2-RELEASE-p2 to 6.2-RELEASE-p3 didn't affect the kernel.

Colin Percival


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