where does uname get version number?
John
aqqa11 at earthlink.net
Mon Apr 21 00:41:33 UTC 2014
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>From: John <aqqa11 at earthlink.net>
>Sent: Apr 19, 2014 6:49 PM
>To: FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
>Subject: Re: where does uname get version number?
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>So the question is back to the beginning: I installed 9.1-RELEASE, then binary upgraded to 9.2-RELEASE using freebsd-update. Now all files I checked are correctly in 9.2-RELEASE-p4. For example:
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>1. the kernel contains the new version:
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># strings /boot/kernel/kernel | grep RELEASE|grep 9
>@(#)FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE-p4 #0: Tue Apr 8 18:08:22 UTC 2014
>FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE-p4 #0: Tue Apr 8 18:08:22 UTC 2014
>9.2-RELEASE-p4
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>2. /etc/hosts contains 9.2:
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># $FreeBSD: release/9.2.0/etc/hosts 109997 2003-01-28 21:29:23Z dbaker $
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>We have verified that:
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>1. I never compiled kernel, and do not have /usr/src and /usr/obj folders now.
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>2. the default /etc/profile is unchanged, in particular I never defined UNAME_* vars .
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>3. I also tried "unsetenv UNAME_r"
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>However, uname somehow shows the wrong version 9.1:
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># uname -a
>FreeBSD localhost.localdomain 9.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE #0 r243825: Tue Dec 4 09:23:10 UTC 2012 root at farrell.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
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>So where does uname get the version number from? Which file(s) might not have been upgraded? Thank you!
I found the source code of uname at
http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/release/9.2.0/usr.bin/uname/uname.c?revision=255898&view=markup
it appears that "uname -v" does get version number from the environment variable "UNAME_v". However it's beyond me to find out where there variables are obtained - on a stock RELEASE system without /usr/src and /usr/obj.
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