wrong patchlevel after freebsd-update install?
Paul Mather
paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu
Fri Dec 12 15:30:14 UTC 2014
On Dec 12, 2014, at 4:30 AM, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas at bris.ac.uk> wrote:
> On 10.0-RELEASE-p12 amd64 I updated to p13 as:
>
> freebsd-update fetch
> freebsd-update install
> reboot
>
> However, uname still shows the old patchlevel:
>
> # uname -a
> FreeBSD 001cc0f01814.anet.bris.ac.uk 10.0-RELEASE-p12 FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE-p12 #0: Tue Nov 4 05:07:17 UTC 2014 root at amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
> #
>
> But freebsd-update fetch suggests I'm already at p13:
>
> # freebsd-update fetch
> Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 5 mirrors found.
> Fetching metadata signature for 10.0-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 10.0-RELEASE-p13.
> #
>
> So has the update p12 -> p13 succeeded?
What does "freebsd-version" report? If it returns 10.0-RELEASE-p13 then your freebsd-update succeeded.
> Please clarify
It's my understanding that uname only gets updated when freebsd-update updates the kernel. I think that's why freebsd-version was introduced.
>
> Thanks
>
> Anton
Cheers,
Paul.
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