Problem updating a 10.3-RELEASE system

Jim Trigg jktrigg at gmail.com
Wed Dec 14 19:18:10 UTC 2016


On 12/14/2016 02:04 PM, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Dec 2016 13:48:41 -0500
> Jim Trigg <jtrigg at michaelines.net> wrote:
>
>> azure() ~# uname -a
>> FreeBSD azure.heraldsnet.org 10.3-RELEASE-p11 FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE-p11
>> #0: Mon Oct 24 18:49:24 UTC 2016
>> root at amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
>> azure() ~# freebsd-update fetch
>> Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found.
>> Fetching metadata signature for 10.3-RELEASE from update5.freebsd.org...
>> done.
>> Fetching metadata index... done.
>> Inspecting system... done.
>> Preparing to download files... done.
>>
>> No updates needed to update system to 10.3-RELEASE-p14.
>> azure() ~# freebsd-update install
>> No updates are available to install.
>> Run '/usr/sbin/freebsd-update fetch' first.
>> azure() ~#
>>
>> This makes no sense to me.
>
> 	uname reports the kernel version, which last changed in p11
> (p12,13 and 14 were all userland only updates). To see the system version
> use freebsd-version optionally with -u for userland version or -k for
> kernel version (by default you get the userland version).

Both of those (once I corrected to -U and -K) report 1003000 - not helpful.

Thanks,
Jim Trigg



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