Problem updating a 10.3-RELEASE system

Steve O'Hara-Smith steve at sohara.org
Wed Dec 14 19:39:29 UTC 2016


On Wed, 14 Dec 2016 14:18:07 -0500
Jim Trigg <jktrigg at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

# freebsd-version
10.3-RELEASE-p14
# freebsd-version -u
10.3-RELEASE-p14
# freebsd-version -k
10.3-RELEASE-p11

	Not uname -U, uname -K.

-- 
Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve at sohara.org>


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