{Spam?} Re: patches and uname -a

[Roberto Nunnari]

Ceri Davies wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 03:26:22PM +0100, Roberto Nunnari wrote:
> 
>>Ceri Davies wrote:
>>
>>>On 12 Jan 2006, at 12:32, Roberto Nunnari wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hello.
>>>>
>>>>Please also answer to my mailbox as I'm not on the list.
>>>>
>>>>After upgrading by sources and build world, uname correctly
>>>>reports the current version of the system
>>>>
>>>>Today for the first time I applied all the relevant patches
>>>>instead and all went well. The box was 5.3-RELEASE-p23.
>>>>
>>>>The applied patches should correspond to 5.3-RELEASE-p24, but:
>>>>
>>>># uname -r
>>>>5.3-RELEASE-p23
>>>>
>>>>and:
>>>>
>>>># sysctl kern.version
>>>>kern.version: FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p23 #0: Tue Jan  3 15:40:08 CET 2006
>>>>...
>>>>
>>>>I'd like to be able to see the correct version using
>>>>'uname -r'..
>>>>
>>>>Does anybody know how can you make uname report the
>>>>real version? What if you recompile the kernel after
>>>>patching the system? Would that do the trick?
>>>
>>>
>>>Recompiling the kernel is the correct way to change the output of  
>>>uname(1), but before you do so, you should be aware that that patch  
>>>number is taken from the BRANCH variable in src/sys/conf/newvers.sh.   
>>>Check that it says "5.3-RELEASE-p24" before you waste time  recompiling 
>>>the kernel.
>>>
>>>Ceri
>>
>>Thank you Ceri and Jaap for your time.
>>
>>Ceri, edit src/sys/conf/newvers.sh and replace
>>
>>BRANCH="RELEASE-p23"
>>with
>>BRANCH="RELEASE-p24"
>>
>>would be enough??
> 
> 
> That would work, but if you don't already have that string then there is
> a possibility that you don't have all the patches, so please only change
> it if you are %100 sure that you have.  I cannot stress that enough.
> 
> Ceri

I checked the patches (cpio.patch ee.patch texindex5x.patch) and none
of them tries to change src/sys/conf/newvers.sh nor src/UPDATING

Also, I checked the output while applying the patches and there
were no errors.

So.. as I didn't find any other patches that are post p23, I edited
newvers.sh, build a new kernel and rebooted. uname -r is now happy.

Thank you again.

Best regards.
--
Robi