Re: freebsd-update patch not being applied

On Sun, 1 Mar 2009 17:46:27 +0000
"Daniel Bye" <danielby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 08:50:48AM -0800, James wrote:
For some reason when i type uname -a on my desktop, which is running 7.1, all I see is this:

$ uname -a
FreeBSD me 7.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE #0: Thu Jan 1 08:58:24 UTC 2009 root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64

But if i run freebsd-update fetch i get this

$ sudo freebsd-update fetch
Password:
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 2 mirrors found.
Fetching metadata signature for 7.1-RELEASE from update2.FreeBSD.org... done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Inspecting system... done.
Preparing to download files... done.

No updates needed to update system to 7.1-RELEASE-p3.

Everytime the application has said there are new updates i installed them with `freebsd-update install`,
and eventually i got around to restarting, but when I log back in and type `uname -a` I get the same message
as above: `7.1-RELEASE #0`

Now on a seperate system running 7.0 I have a similar problem where uname -a always reports `7.0-RELEASE-p7 #0`
even though freebsd-update reports
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 2 mirrors found.
Fetching metadata signature for 7.0-RELEASE from update2.FreeBSD.org... done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Inspecting system... done.
Preparing to download files... done.

No updates needed to update system to 7.0-RELEASE-p10.

Now I'm new to the BSD world, but i do have a fair amount of experience with Linux. What I am trying to figure
out here, is why uname -a reports a different patch number than it should.

This is the normal behaviour for freebsd-update. The patch level number will
only bump if an update affects the kernel. The most recent updates for 7.1
didn't touch the kernel, so you still see the previous (somewhat confusing)
version number. However, if the next update requires that the kernel be
replaced, then you'll see the patch level number increase.

Hope this makes sense...

Dan

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Makes perfect sense, thanks for replying, i appreciate the help
James
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