freebsd-update problems

[Gianni Vialetto]

2012/1/7 Aristedes Maniatis <ari at ish.com.au>:
> [...]
> 1. I am clearly running 8.2-p5, but the final message says "no updates
> needed". That's clearly not correct since p5 < p8. And running uname again
> after this results in still seeing p5.

That's not really true.
Unless an update upgrades the kernel, the result of "uname -a" will
not change. For it to change, you have to recompile the kernel
yourself - using the generic of a custom configuration.

Your current release level is the fourth field in
/var/db/freebsd-update/tag, IIRC.

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Gianni Vialetto
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