On Wednesday, April 24, 2013, Walter Hurry wrote: > On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:05:04 +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > > The kernel's version message will only change if the _kernel_ has been > > receiving changes. So, for example, if you update from 9.1 to 9.1-p2, > > and _no_ change has been written to the kernel, it will still report > > 9.1, even though the updates for -p2 have been applied to other places > > (like system binaries or libraries). > > > > You can use the -r option to freebsd-update to explicitely specify a > > version to update to. See "man freebsd-update" for details. > > Thanks for the reply, but I'm still confused. > -------------------------------------- > # freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.1-RELEASE-p2 > Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found. > Fetching metadata signature for 9.1-RELEASE from update5.freebsd.org... > done. > Fetching metadata index... done. > Inspecting system... done. > > The following components of FreeBSD seem to be installed: > kernel/generic src/src world/base world/lib32 > > The following components of FreeBSD do not seem to be installed: > world/doc world/games > > Does this look reasonable (y/n)? y > > Fetching metadata signature for 9.1-RELEASE-p2 from > update5.freebsd.org... failed. > Fetching metadata signature for 9.1-RELEASE-p2 from > update4.freebsd.org... failed. > Fetching metadata signature for 9.1-RELEASE-p2 from > update3.freebsd.org... failed. > No mirrors remaining, giving up > -------------------------------------- > > Where am I going wrong? > > > > Hi Walter,
Freebsd-update tool apply binary patches to your -RELEASE system and GENERIC kernel. Furthermore, sources are synced too (/usr/src) by default. If you want to see the -p# increased, you have to recompile your GENERIC kernel. If you are using a custom kernel, you must recompile it to apply patches as your sources are up-to-date. You will have the -p# increased too. Kind regards, Alexandre _______________________________________________ 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"
