On Sun 2009-03-01 08:50:48 UTC-0800, James (ja...@slohall.com) 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 r...@driscoll.cse.buffalo.edu:/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`
This is (probably) normal. uname -a shows the kernel version, however often freebsd-update will patch other (non-kernel) parts of the base system, leaving the kernel alone. eg. the recent bug involving telnetd on 7.x systems only required patching the telnetd binary. AFAIK, each time a patch is required, /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh is updated. $ sudo freebsd-update fetch No updates needed to update system to 6.4-RELEASE-p3. $ uname -a FreeBSD blizzard.phoenix 6.4-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE-p1 #0: Sun Dec 21 07:56:41 UTC 2008 r...@i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 $ grep -v # /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh | head -4 TYPE="FreeBSD" REVISION="6.4" BRANCH="RELEASE-p3" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
