On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 01:46:51PM +0200, n j wrote: > Hello, > > while updating my FreeBSD box, freebsd-update reported: > > Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 1 mirrors found. > Fetching metadata signature from update1.FreeBSD.org... done. > ... > No updates needed to update system to 6.2-RELEASE-p6. > > However, uname -a reveals: > > FreeBSD my.hostname.here 6.2-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p4 #0: Thu > Apr 26 17:55:55 UTC 2007 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386 > > which suggests that my system is still running 6.2-RELEASE-p4, not > 6.2-RELEASE-p6 that I guess it should be running. The box was rebooted > a couple of times, but still reports the same. > > My question: am I reading something wrong here or is there a problem > with freebsd-update? More specifically, is the problem that the system > is running SMP?
The cause for this confusion is the fact that patches 5 and 6 were for a userland utility (file) and a library (libarchive), not for the kernel. So for these patches, the kernel (which contains the release-level string) isn't rebuilt and so it isn't updated. The only ways to fix this are: 1) change the update mechanism to update the kernel(s) version string 2) rebuild the kernel locally. Whether 1 is appropriate is up to the maintainer, I guess. You could submit a problem report about it with the send-pr tool. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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