versions move backwards with freebsd-update(8)

[Rolf Nielsen]

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On 2014-06-25 16:39, John wrote:
> Hello freebsd-questions,
> 
> I have a netbook running as a small server, running freebsd
> 10.0-RELEASE-p5. I've not used frebsd-update before, but thought I
> would try as it's running RELEASE, and it would otherwise take ages
> to upgrade as it's only an atom n450 with 4GB ram. It runs i386
> rather than amd64.

<...>

> 
> Last login: Wed Jun 25 03:00:59 2014 from 192.168.1.210 FreeBSD
> 10.0-RELEASE-p4 (GENERIC) #0: Tue Jun  3 12:52:18 UTC 2014
> 
> ?!!
> 
> $ uname -a FreeBSD samsung 10.0-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE-p4
> #0: Tue Jun  3 12:52:18 UTC 2014
> root at amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
> i386
> 
> I'm expecting p6 and instead got p4. What gives?
> 

If there are no updates to the kernel, the version info will not be
updated even if userland has been updated. If you previously updated
by compiling source, the version info would have been updated, in your
case to p5. However, if there have been no changes to the GENERIC
kernel since p4, the reported version will revert to that after a
binary update.

Rolf
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