uname(1) does not show system is patched via freebsd-update(8)

martinko gamato at users.sf.net
Thu Dec 31 09:40:57 UTC 2009


Hallo,

The system here seems to be patched yet I do not see the information in 
uname(1) output (see below).  Is this a bug or my error or what ?

Cheers,

Martin

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mb-aw1n-bsd[/root]# freebsd-update install
No updates are available to install.
Run '/usr/sbin/freebsd-update fetch' first.
mb-aw1n-bsd[/root]# freebsd-update fetch
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found.
Fetching metadata signature for 8.0-RELEASE from update4.FreeBSD.org... 
done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Inspecting system... done.
Preparing to download files... done.

No updates needed to update system to 8.0-RELEASE-p1.
mb-aw1n-bsd[/root]# uname -a
FreeBSD mb-aw1n-bsd 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0: Sat Nov 21 
15:48:17 UTC 2009 
root at almeida.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386



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