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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