freebsd-update patch not being applied

[James]

On Sun, 1 Mar 2009 17:46:27 +0000
"Daniel Bye" <danielby at slightlystrange.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 08:50:48AM -0800, James wrote:
> > For some reason when i type uname -a on my desktop, which is running 7.1, all I see is this:
> > 
> > 	$ uname -a
> > 	FreeBSD me 7.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE #0: Thu Jan  1 08:58:24 UTC 2009     root at driscoll.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
> > 
> > But if i run freebsd-update fetch i get this
> > 
> > 	$ sudo freebsd-update fetch
> > 	Password:
> > 	Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 2 mirrors found.
> > 	Fetching metadata signature for 7.1-RELEASE from update2.FreeBSD.org... done.
> > 	Fetching metadata index... done.
> > 	Inspecting system... done.
> > 	Preparing to download files... done.
> > 
> > 	No updates needed to update system to 7.1-RELEASE-p3.
> > 
> > Everytime the application has said there are new updates i installed them with `freebsd-update install`,
> > and eventually i got around to restarting, but when I log back in and type `uname -a` I get the same message
> > as above: `7.1-RELEASE #0`
> > 
> > Now on a seperate system running 7.0 I have a similar problem where uname -a always reports `7.0-RELEASE-p7 #0`
> > even though freebsd-update reports
> > 	Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 2 mirrors found.
> > 	Fetching metadata signature for 7.0-RELEASE from update2.FreeBSD.org... done.
> > 	Fetching metadata index... done.
> > 	Inspecting system... done.
> > 	Preparing to download files... done.
> > 
> > 	No updates needed to update system to 7.0-RELEASE-p10.
> > 
> > Now I'm new to the BSD world, but i do have a fair amount of experience with Linux. What I am trying to figure
> > out here, is why uname -a reports a different patch number than it should.
> 
> This is the normal behaviour for freebsd-update. The patch level number will
> only bump if an update affects the kernel. The most recent updates for 7.1
> didn't touch the kernel, so you still see the previous (somewhat confusing)
> version number. However, if the next update requires that the kernel be
> replaced, then you'll see the patch level number increase.
> 
> Hope this makes sense...
> 
> Dan
> 
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Makes perfect sense, thanks for replying, i appreciate the help
James
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