Re: patches and uname -a

Roberto Nunnari <roberto.nunnari@xxxxxxxx> · Thu, 12 Jan 2006 15:26:22 +0100

Thank you Ceri and Jaap for your time.
Ceri, edit src/sys/conf/newvers.sh and replace
BRANCH="RELEASE-p23"
with
BRANCH="RELEASE-p24"
would be enough??
Best regards.

Ceri Davies wrote:

On 12 Jan 2006, at 12:32, Roberto Nunnari wrote:
Hello.
Please also answer to my mailbox as I'm not on the list.
After upgrading by sources and build world, uname correctly
reports the current version of the system
Today for the first time I applied all the relevant patches
instead and all went well. The box was 5.3-RELEASE-p23.
The applied patches should correspond to 5.3-RELEASE-p24, but:
# uname -r
5.3-RELEASE-p23
and:
# sysctl kern.version
kern.version: FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p23 #0: Tue Jan  3 15:40:08 CET 2006
...
I'd like to be able to see the correct version using
'uname -r'..
Does anybody know how can you make uname report the
real version? What if you recompile the kernel after
patching the system? Would that do the trick?

Recompiling the kernel is the correct way to change the output of  
uname(1), but before you do so, you should be aware that that patch  
number is taken from the BRANCH variable in src/sys/conf/newvers.sh.   
Check that it says "5.3-RELEASE-p24" before you waste time  recompiling 
the kernel.
Ceri

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