On 7/01/12 9:17 PM, Gianni Vialetto wrote:
2012/1/7 Aristedes Maniatis<[email protected]>:
[...]
1. I am clearly running 8.2-p5, but the final message says "no updates
needed". That's clearly not correct since p5< p8. And running uname again
after this results in still seeing p5.
That's not really true.
Unless an update upgrades the kernel, the result of "uname -a" will
not change. For it to change, you have to recompile the kernel
yourself - using the generic of a custom configuration.
Your current release level is the fourth field in
/var/db/freebsd-update/tag, IIRC.
Thanks for that clarification. That is a very obscure place to look, but it
appears to be correct. I had never noticed before the difference between kernel
patch level (in uname) and overall system patch level. Many years ago I used to
upgrade FreeBSD by compiling kernel and world every time, so I guess those
things used to match. But binary updating is so much faster these days and the
benefits of optimising the kernel with only the things I need are fairly
negligible.
If I could make a suggestion for freebsd-update. When it runs, it might spit
out this:
Current system:
-- running kernel 8.1-RELEASE-p4
-- installed kernel 8.1-RELEASE-p5 (will be running after reboot)
-- intalled system 8.1-RELEASE-p8
The second line would be conditionally output only if it differs from the first
line.
And of course, some suggestion about how to resolve the modified locally files
would be ideal.
Ari
--
-------------------------->
Aristedes Maniatis
ish
http://www.ish.com.au
Level 1, 30 Wilson Street Newtown 2042 Australia
phone +61 2 9550 5001 fax +61 2 9550 4001
GPG fingerprint CBFB 84B4 738D 4E87 5E5C 5EFA EF6A 7D2E 3E49 102A
_______________________________________________
[email protected] mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
