Re: freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.4-RELEASE-p12

2013-10-10 Thread Mark Felder
On Wed, Oct 9, 2013, at 8:36, Eduardo Morras wrote: On Tue, 8 Oct 2013 21:32:39 -0600 (MDT) Mike Brown m...@skew.org wrote: alexus wrote: ok, I just did fetch install and got bumped from p5 to p9 # uname -a FreeBSD XX.X.org 7.4-RELEASE-p9 FreeBSD 7.4-RELEASE-p9 #0: Mon Jun

Re: freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.4-RELEASE-p12

2013-10-09 Thread Mark Felder
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013, at 22:32, Mike Brown wrote: alexus wrote: ok, I just did fetch install and got bumped from p5 to p9 # uname -a FreeBSD XX.X.org 7.4-RELEASE-p9 FreeBSD 7.4-RELEASE-p9 #0: Mon Jun 11 19:47:58 UTC 2012

Re: freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.4-RELEASE-p12

2013-10-09 Thread Eduardo Morras
On Tue, 8 Oct 2013 21:32:39 -0600 (MDT) Mike Brown m...@skew.org wrote: alexus wrote: ok, I just did fetch install and got bumped from p5 to p9 # uname -a FreeBSD XX.X.org 7.4-RELEASE-p9 FreeBSD 7.4-RELEASE-p9 #0: Mon Jun 11 19:47:58 UTC 2012

Re: freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.4-RELEASE-p12

2013-10-09 Thread alexus
Mike Brown: $ grep ^BRANCH /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh BRANCH=RELEASE-p12 $ then again, I used freebsd-update and not /usr/src, but it makes sense what you said with kernel, so I guess I _AM_ on the latest -p12 and kernel is on -p9 as there was no changes after that to kernel. thank you. On

Re: freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.4-RELEASE-p12

2013-10-09 Thread Mike Brown
Eduardo Morras wrote: [...] uname -a should give the correct answer. Has uname other utility than show information about the operating system implementation? No, and it must be accurate. That's what I thought, but when I asked about it here last year, I was told that this is the way things

Re: freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.4-RELEASE-p12

2013-10-08 Thread Mike Brown
alexus wrote: ok, I just did fetch install and got bumped from p5 to p9 # uname -a FreeBSD XX.X.org 7.4-RELEASE-p9 FreeBSD 7.4-RELEASE-p9 #0: Mon Jun 11 19:47:58 UTC 2012 r...@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 # can I take it all the way to -p12?

Re: freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.4-RELEASE-p12

2013-10-07 Thread Andreas Rudisch
On Mon, 7 Oct 2013 15:22:17 -0400 alexus ale...@gmail.com wrote: bash-4.2# freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.4-RELEASE-p12 Is there a way to upgrade 7.4-RELEASE-p5 to 7.4-RELEASE-p12 using freebsd-update now? What about: # freebsd-update fetch # freebsd-update install

Re: freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.4-RELEASE-p12

2013-10-07 Thread Mark Felder
On Mon, Oct 7, 2013, at 14:22, alexus wrote: bash-4.2# freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.4-RELEASE-p12 Just freebsd-update fetch freebsd-update install is all you should have to run. The -r flag is for jumping major releases (from 7.x to 8.x, for example). I can't comment on whether or not the

Re: freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.4-RELEASE-p12

2013-10-07 Thread alexus
ok, I just did fetch install and got bumped from p5 to p9 # uname -a FreeBSD XX.X.org 7.4-RELEASE-p9 FreeBSD 7.4-RELEASE-p9 #0: Mon Jun 11 19:47:58 UTC 2012 r...@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 # can I take it all the way to -p12? (I'm running fetch again,

Re: freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.4-RELEASE-p12

2013-10-07 Thread alexus
it didn't help.. # freebsd-update fetch Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 5 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature for 7.4-RELEASE from update6.freebsd.org... done. Fetching metadata index... done. Inspecting system... done. Preparing to download files... done. The following files are

Re: freebsd-update percentage indicators - what are they, why are they so random?

2013-06-25 Thread Mike Brown
Fetching 1 metadata files... 70.5% done. 70.5% 70.5% 74.2% 74.2% 81.7% 81.7% 70.5% I think this is a result of having -v in my GZIP environment variable. I always forget about my GZIP and BZIP2 variables. I should've known. So, never mind about that.

Re: freebsd-update and /boot/kernel/linker.hints

2013-05-13 Thread Stephan Schindel
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 11:22:41AM +0200, Wolfgang Riegler wrote: Hi, since last freebsd-update fetch install I always get this message after freebsd-update fetch: The following files will be updated as part of updating to 9.1-RELEASE-p3: /boot/kernel/linker.hints but freebsd-update

Re: FreeBSD-update?

2013-04-25 Thread Daniel Feenberg
On Thu, 25 Apr 2013, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: The problem under discussion is that the kernel version does not change when a freebsd-update update does not include a kernel change. Perhaps we could adopt the Linux practice of placing the release information in /etc/issue

Re: FreeBSD-update?

2013-04-25 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 07:37:01 -0400 (EDT), Daniel Feenberg wrote: On Thu, 25 Apr 2013, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: The problem under discussion is that the kernel version does not change when a freebsd-update update does not include a kernel change. Perhaps we could adopt the

Re: FreeBSD-update?

2013-04-25 Thread Daniel Feenberg
On Thu, 25 Apr 2013, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 07:37:01 -0400 (EDT), Daniel Feenberg wrote: On Thu, 25 Apr 2013, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: The problem under discussion is that the kernel version does not change when a freebsd-update update does not include a kernel

Re: FreeBSD-update?

2013-04-25 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:14:06 -0400 (EDT), Daniel Feenberg wrote: This is written as though it applies to FreeBSD, but I was under the impression that FreeBSD didn't do anything with /etc/issue. It actually works quite well, I'm using it for decades. :-) You just need to add the item

Re: FreeBSD-update?

2013-04-24 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:00:47 + (UTC), Walter Hurry wrote: When I issue 'freebsd-update fetch install I see this: Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature for 9.1-RELEASE from update5.freebsd.org...

Re: FreeBSD-update?

2013-04-24 Thread Walter Hurry
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

Re: FreeBSD-update?

2013-04-24 Thread Alexandre
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

Re: FreeBSD-update?

2013-04-24 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:00:47 + (UTC) Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com wrote: When I issue 'freebsd-update fetch install I see this: Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature for 9.1-RELEASE from

Re: FreeBSD-update?

2013-04-24 Thread Mark Felder
On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:34:30 -0500, Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org wrote: You have updated to 9.1-RELEASE-p2 - but since there have been no kernel changes since 9.1-RELEASE the kernel version message hasn't changed. This could very reasonably be regarded as bug in the update/version

Re: FreeBSD-update?

2013-04-24 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 19:35:01 +0200, Alexandre wrote: 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

Re: FreeBSD-update?

2013-04-24 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:52:17 -0500, Mark Felder wrote: On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:34:30 -0500, Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org wrote: You have updated to 9.1-RELEASE-p2 - but since there have been no kernel changes since 9.1-RELEASE the kernel version message hasn't changed. This could

Re: FreeBSD-update?

2013-04-24 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:52:17 -0500 Mark Felder f...@feld.me wrote: On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:34:30 -0500, Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org wrote: You have updated to 9.1-RELEASE-p2 - but since there have been no kernel changes since 9.1-RELEASE the kernel version message hasn't

Re: FreeBSD-update?

2013-04-24 Thread Da Rock
On 04/25/13 06:31, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:52:17 -0500 Mark Felder f...@feld.me wrote: On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:34:30 -0500, Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org wrote: You have updated to 9.1-RELEASE-p2 - but since there have been no kernel changes since 9.1-RELEASE

Re: FreeBSD-update?

2013-04-24 Thread Mike Brown
Da Rock wrote: sysctl kern.version For me, that's the same info as in uname -a. Try this: grep -v # /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh | head -4 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: FreeBSD-update?

2013-04-24 Thread Mark Felder
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013, at 18:07, Mike Brown wrote: Da Rock wrote: sysctl kern.version For me, that's the same info as in uname -a. Try this: grep -v # /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh | head -4 Not useful if you don't have src on your servers, but that's good to know.

Re: FreeBSD-update?

2013-04-24 Thread Da Rock
On 04/25/13 09:07, Mike Brown wrote: Da Rock wrote: sysctl kern.version For me, that's the same info as in uname -a. Try this: grep -v # /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh | head -4 That shows even less. But the point of the OP was having a file in etc with the info on version, which I fell could

Re: FreeBSD-update?

2013-04-24 Thread Mark Felder
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013, at 20:41, Da Rock wrote: On 04/25/13 09:07, Mike Brown wrote: Da Rock wrote: sysctl kern.version For me, that's the same info as in uname -a. Try this: grep -v # /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh | head -4 That shows even less. But the point of the OP was having a

Re: FreeBSD-update?

2013-04-24 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 21:13:56 -0500, Mark Felder wrote: The point is that the uname and sysctl output is inaccurate. If the latest release is -p6 and the kernel hasn't been touched since -p4, both uname and the sysctl only show -p4. It's impossible to tell otherwise that the system is really

Re: FreeBSD-update?

2013-04-24 Thread Mike.
On 4/24/2013 at 5:07 PM Mike Brown wrote: |Da Rock wrote: | sysctl kern.version | |For me, that's the same info as in uname -a. | |Try this: | |grep -v # /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh | head -4 = If uname -r [-a] does not give the proper version of the OS, then it is either a bug,

Re: FreeBSD-update?

2013-04-24 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 22:32:17 -0400, Mike. wrote: If uname -r [-a] does not give the proper version of the OS, then it is either a bug, or the documentation for uname should be changed. Currently, the man page for uname gives the following option: -r Write the current release level of

Re: FreeBSD-update?

2013-04-24 Thread Mike.
On 4/25/2013 at 4:47 AM Polytropon wrote: |On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 22:32:17 -0400, Mike. wrote: | If uname -r [-a] does not give the proper version of the OS, then it is | either a bug, or the documentation for uname should be changed. | Currently, the man page for uname gives the following option: |

Re: FreeBSD-update?

2013-04-24 Thread Da Rock
On 04/25/13 13:32, Mike. wrote: On 4/25/2013 at 4:47 AM Polytropon wrote: |On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 22:32:17 -0400, Mike. wrote: | If uname -r [-a] does not give the proper version of the OS, then it is | either a bug, or the documentation for uname should be changed. | Currently, the man page for

Re: FreeBSD-update?

2013-04-24 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 08:43:59 +1000 Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote: On 04/25/13 06:31, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:52:17 -0500 Mark Felder f...@feld.me wrote: On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:34:30 -0500, Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org wrote:

Re: FreeBSD-update?

2013-04-24 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 13:43:03 +1000 Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote: Interesting. My only observation was that sysctl is supposed to be the 'system' database where all queries relate to. It is supposed to display everything about the system; therefore any of these

Re: freebsd-update problems

2013-02-01 Thread Kevin Kinsey
On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 11:51:41AM -0800, Carl Johnson wrote: I ran freebsd-update to update my 8.1-RELEASE system to 8.3-RELEASE (freebsd-update -r 8.3-RELEASE upgrade). It downloaded a bunch of files, asked me to edit some configuration files, showed me long lists of files that have been

Re: freebsd-update problems

2013-02-01 Thread Gökşin Akdeniz
Fri, 01 Feb 2013 11:51:41 -0800 tarihinde Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org yazmış: Does anybody have any suggestions on what might have happened and what can be done? Hello Carl, What does # uname -a or # uname -r output says? -- Gökşin Akdeniz goksin.akde...@gmail.com pgpxkVgruffrn.pgp

Re: freebsd-update problems

2013-02-01 Thread Carl Johnson
Kevin Kinsey k...@daleco.biz writes: On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 11:51:41AM -0800, Carl Johnson wrote: I ran freebsd-update to update my 8.1-RELEASE system to 8.3-RELEASE (freebsd-update -r 8.3-RELEASE upgrade). It downloaded a bunch of files, asked me to edit some configuration files, showed me

Re: freebsd-update problems

2013-02-01 Thread Carl Johnson
Gökşin Akdeniz goksin.akde...@gmail.com writes: Fri, 01 Feb 2013 11:51:41 -0800 tarihinde Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org yazmış: Does anybody have any suggestions on what might have happened and what can be done? Hello Carl, What does # uname -a or # uname -r output says? It still shows

Re: freebsd-update problems

2013-02-01 Thread Paul Macdonald
On 01/02/2013 22:50, Carl Johnson wrote: Gökşin Akdeniz goksin.akde...@gmail.com writes: Fri, 01 Feb 2013 11:51:41 -0800 tarihinde Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org yazmış: Does anybody have any suggestions on what might have happened and what can be done? Hello Carl, What does # uname -a or #

Re: freebsd-update problems

2013-02-01 Thread Carl Johnson
Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org writes: Kevin Kinsey k...@daleco.biz writes: On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 11:51:41AM -0800, Carl Johnson wrote: I ran freebsd-update to update my 8.1-RELEASE system to 8.3-RELEASE (freebsd-update -r 8.3-RELEASE upgrade). It downloaded a bunch of files, asked me to

Re: freebsd-update problems

2013-02-01 Thread Paul Macdonald
On 01/02/2013 22:50, Carl Johnson wrote: Gökşin Akdeniz goksin.akde...@gmail.com writes: Fri, 01 Feb 2013 11:51:41 -0800 tarihinde Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org yazmış: Does anybody have any suggestions on what might have happened and what can be done? Hello Carl, What does # uname -a or #

Re: freebsd-update problems

2013-02-01 Thread Carl Johnson
Paul Macdonald p...@ifdnrg.com writes: On 01/02/2013 22:50, Carl Johnson wrote: Gökşin Akdeniz goksin.akde...@gmail.com writes: Fri, 01 Feb 2013 11:51:41 -0800 tarihinde Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org yazmış: Does anybody have any suggestions on what might have happened and what can be done?

Re: freebsd-update: fale?

2013-01-04 Thread Joe Altman
On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 03:50:44PM +0100, Martin Laabs wrote: Hi, On 01/02/13 01:21, Joe Altman wrote: Greetings, list. I have the following error; though I can load update5.FreeBSD.org in a browser: [...] maybe you use a release that is not supported by freebsd-update. Run uname -r

Re: freebsd-update: fale?

2013-01-04 Thread Fbsd8
Joe Altman wrote: On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 03:50:44PM +0100, Martin Laabs wrote: Hi, On 01/02/13 01:21, Joe Altman wrote: Greetings, list. I have the following error; though I can load update5.FreeBSD.org in a browser: [...] maybe you use a release that is not supported by freebsd-update. Run

Re: freebsd-update: fale?

2013-01-03 Thread Martin Laabs
Hi, On 01/02/13 01:21, Joe Altman wrote: Greetings, list. I have the following error; though I can load update5.FreeBSD.org in a browser: [...] maybe you use a release that is not supported by freebsd-update. Run uname -r an compare the release with that you see when looking at

Re: freebsd-update: fale?

2013-01-03 Thread Martin Laabs
Hi, On 01/02/13 01:21, Joe Altman wrote: Greetings, list. I have the following error; though I can load update5.FreeBSD.org in a browser: [...] maybe you use a release that is not supported by freebsd-update. Run uname -r an compare the release with that you see when looking at

Re: freebsd-update patches custom /boot/kernel/kernel which it should not

2013-01-02 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On January 2, 2013 6:45:50 PM +0100 andreas scherrer ascher...@gmail.com wrote: Hi This can be considered a follow up to the message How to keep freebsd-update from trashing custom kernel? sent to this list by Brett Glass on August 13th 2012 (see [1]). Unfortunately there is no solution to

Re: freebsd-update patches custom /boot/kernel/kernel which it should not

2013-01-02 Thread Michael Sierchio
The confusion comes from the fact that the original behavior of freebsd-update was NOT to update the kernel binaries if a custom kernel was detected. FYI my /etc/freebsd-update.conf has # Components of the base system which should be kept updated. #Components src world kernel Components src

Re: freebsd-update patches custom /boot/kernel/kernel which it should not

2013-01-02 Thread andreas scherrer
on 2.1.13 19:15 Paul Schmehl said the following: --On January 2, 2013 6:45:50 PM +0100 andreas scherrer And from experience this is what it will do: replace /boot/kernel/kernel which is my custom kernel with a GENERIC kernel. As it seems that freebsd-update works by comparing a hash of

Re: freebsd-update patches custom /boot/kernel/kernel which it should not

2013-01-02 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 11:18 AM, andreas scherrer ascher...@gmail.comwrote: This is no longer true, though it was true at the time that was written... - However, freebsd-update will detect and update the GENERIC kernel in /boot/GENERIC (if it exists), even if it is not the current

Re: freebsd-update patches custom /boot/kernel/kernel which it should not

2013-01-02 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On January 2, 2013 8:18:38 PM +0100 andreas scherrer ascher...@gmail.com wrote: on 2.1.13 19:15 Paul Schmehl said the following: --On January 2, 2013 6:45:50 PM +0100 andreas scherrer And from experience this is what it will do: replace /boot/kernel/kernel which is my custom kernel with a

Re: freebsd-update patches custom /boot/kernel/kernel which it should not

2013-01-02 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On January 2, 2013 1:46:25 PM -0600 Paul Schmehl pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.com wrote: --On January 2, 2013 8:18:38 PM +0100 andreas scherrer ascher...@gmail.com wrote: on 2.1.13 19:15 Paul Schmehl said the following: --On January 2, 2013 6:45:50 PM +0100 andreas scherrer And from experience

Re: freebsd-update patches custom /boot/kernel/kernel which it should not

2013-01-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 02/01/2013 20:55, Paul Schmehl wrote: I wasn't thinking when I wrote this. Freebsd-update pulls *binary* copies of files, so you're not ever going to get the src files to rebuild your kernel from freebsd-update. You need to pull those in using svn. Not so. Take a look at

Re: freebsd-update - To 'Stable'?

2012-11-25 Thread Karl Pielorz
--On 22 November 2012 17:41 +0100 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: I'm looking at switching to 'freebsd-update' - is there an equivalent way to get it to update me to '-STABLE'? No. The freebsd-update program can only be used to follow the RELEASE branch, plus the security updates

Re: freebsd-update - To 'Stable'?

2012-11-25 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 25 Nov 2012 12:06:06 +, Karl Pielorz wrote: --On 22 November 2012 17:41 +0100 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: I'm looking at switching to 'freebsd-update' - is there an equivalent way to get it to update me to '-STABLE'? No. The freebsd-update program can only be

Re: FreeBSD update

2012-10-09 Thread Istvan Gabor
2012. október 8. 17:35 napon Andreas Rudisch cyb.@gmx.net írta: On Mon, 08 Oct 2012 16:52:24 +0200 Istvan Gabor suseuse...@lajt.hu wrote: As I remember correctly during the fetch I saw a message that the current patch level is p4. After rebooting the computer uname gives p3 on the

Re: FreeBSD update

2012-10-09 Thread Andreas Rudisch
On Tue, 09 Oct 2012 11:47:02 +0200 Istvan Gabor suseuse...@lajt.hu wrote: FreeBSD Handbook (at the end of section 25.2.2) says: However, freebsd-update will always update the /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh file. The current patch level (as indicated by the -p number reported by uname -r)

Re: FreeBSD update

2012-10-08 Thread Andreas Rudisch
On Mon, 08 Oct 2012 16:52:24 +0200 Istvan Gabor suseuse...@lajt.hu wrote: As I remember correctly during the fetch I saw a message that the current patch level is p4. After rebooting the computer uname gives p3 on the updated system: Why does uname reports p3 while freebsd-update indicates

Re: freebsd-update

2012-08-26 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sun, 26 Aug 2012 14:24:34 -0400, doug wrote: In doing an update from 8.3 -- 9.0 I messed up the merge on /etc/ttys. This has interesting consequences BTW. Are there any docs on how to do this? Here's mine. Note: I changed ttyv8 from off to on as I am using xdm. console none

Re: freebsd-update

2012-08-26 Thread doug
On Sun, 26 Aug 2012, Walter Hurry wrote: On Sun, 26 Aug 2012 14:24:34 -0400, doug wrote: In doing an update from 8.3 -- 9.0 I messed up the merge on /etc/ttys. This has interesting consequences BTW. Are there any docs on how to do this? Here's mine. Note: I changed ttyv8 from off to on as I

Re: freebsd-update question.

2012-08-23 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 11:36:51 -0400 (EDT), d...@safeport.com wrote: I wanted to see if I could get an 8.1 system updated to 9.0 (mostly) with freebsd-update. I did this with a source update to RELENG_8_3 and then did the standard stuff to get to 9.0 perl and xdm both gave errors that

Re: freebsd-update question.

2012-08-23 Thread doug
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 11:36:51 -0400 (EDT), d...@safeport.com wrote: I wanted to see if I could get an 8.1 system updated to 9.0 (mostly) with freebsd-update. I did this with a source update to RELENG_8_3 and then did the standard stuff to get to 9.0 perl

Re: freebsd-update question.

2012-08-23 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 13:49:18 -0400 (EDT), d...@safeport.com wrote: After seeing if xorg and twm would just work, I did remove all packages with pkg_delete. That did not clear out all of /usr/local. You can do a manual cleanup of /usr/local, entirely removing it and then reconstructing its

Re: freebsd-update fetch trying to update custom kernel

2012-08-20 Thread Alexandre
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Denis piloy...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have FreeBSD 9.0 (p4) with custom kernel. uname -i says it: HOMEWIFI90 However, when I run freebsd-update fetch command it would like to update my kernel as well: freebsd-update fetch Looking up

Re: freebsd-update fetch trying to update custom kernel

2012-08-20 Thread Denis
Hi Alexandre, Have you rebuilt your custom kernel after ? This is described in the Handbook in the section 25.2.2 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html Yes, I rebuilt my custom kernel after. But this doesn't help - every time I run

Re: freebsd-update fetch trying to update custom kernel

2012-08-20 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 14:37:40 +0400, Denis wrote: Hi Alexandre, Have you rebuilt your custom kernel after ? This is described in the Handbook in the section 25.2.2 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html Yes, I rebuilt my custom

Re: freebsd-update fetch trying to update custom kernel

2012-08-20 Thread Denis
Then why not follow my suggestion of _letting_ freebsd-update update the kernel, but _use_ a different one instead which it won't touch? In /boot/loader.conf: kernel=mykernel bootfile=/boot/mykernel/kernel Now freebsd-update can happily alter the default kernel without

Re: freebsd-update fetch trying to update custom kernel

2012-08-20 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
== Denis wrote on Mon 20.Aug'12 at 16:41:56 +0400 == Then why not follow my suggestion of _letting_ freebsd-update update the kernel, but _use_ a different one instead which it won't touch? In /boot/loader.conf: kernel=mykernel bootfile=/boot/mykernel/kernel Now

Re: freebsd-update fetch trying to update custom kernel

2012-08-20 Thread Denis
If you're building your own customised kernel, why don't you just build the entire system from source? I've not used freebsd-update yet and probably won't. Is it just a matter of time, i.e. waiting for the compilation to finish? Actually I built this system from source. And now use

Re: freebsd-update and csup - I'm going around in circles.

2012-08-17 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 01:48:18 +0200, Polytropon wrote: snip problem and comprehensive answer That's really helpful. Very many thanks, Polytropon. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: freebsd-update and csup - I'm going around in circles.

2012-08-16 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 21:24:37 + (UTC), Walter Hurry wrote: Every time I run freebsd-update fetch it says it wants to update the following 5 source files as part of updating to 9.0-RELEASE-p4: /usr/src/sys/amd64/amd64/trap.c /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh /usr/src/sys/netinet/tcp_input.c

Re: freebsd-update from recent 8-STABLE to 9.0-RELEASE issues

2012-06-25 Thread RW
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 04:21:18 -0500 Zane C. B-H. wrote: Howdy! Any one have any idea what is going on below? [root@shiela]/root# uname -a FreeBSD shiela.vulpes.vvelox.net 8.3-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 8.3-PRERELEASE #0: Sat Feb 25 04:55:35 CST 2012

Re: freebsd-update from recent 8-STABLE to 9.0-RELEASE issues

2012-06-25 Thread Zane C. B-H.
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 12:26:12 +0100 RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 04:21:18 -0500 Zane C. B-H. wrote: Howdy! Any one have any idea what is going on below? [root@shiela]/root# uname -a FreeBSD shiela.vulpes.vvelox.net 8.3-PRERELEASE FreeBSD

Re: freebsd-update from recent 8-STABLE to 9.0-RELEASE issues

2012-06-25 Thread RW
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 06:53:45 -0500 Zane C. B-H. wrote: On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 12:26:12 +0100 RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: freebsd-update doesn't support development branches, you have to go from security branch to security branch. I know it can't be used to update to stable, but

Re: freebsd-update from recent 8-STABLE to 9.0-RELEASE issues

2012-06-25 Thread Zane C. B-H.
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 14:12:36 +0100 RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 06:53:45 -0500 Zane C. B-H. wrote: On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 12:26:12 +0100 RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: freebsd-update doesn't support development branches, you have to go from

Re: freebsd-update install question

2012-06-20 Thread Leslie Jensen
Dale Scott skrev 2012-06-14 14:59: Should I install the libc souces? I had this error when upgrading 8.x (8.1 to 8.2?), and solved it by creating the directory only (actual sources not required). I recall someone had posted this solution to the list at the time. Regards, Dale

Re: freebsd-update procedure, question

2012-06-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 14/06/2012 10:41, Leslie Jensen wrote: When one recives the FreeBSD Errata Notice or FreeBSD Security Advisory The instruction is to do: # freebsd-update fetch # freebsd-update install From earlier discussions on this list about the -px number not changing, I usually

Re: freebsd-update install question

2012-06-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 14/06/2012 10:45, Leslie Jensen wrote: When I do freebsd-update install I get this error: Installing updates...install: ///usr/src/lib/libc/gen/libc_dlopen.c: No such file or directory I think it's because I do not have all sources installed. So I just want to confirm that it's

Re: freebsd-update install question

2012-06-14 Thread Leslie Jensen
2012-06-14 12:18, Matthew Seaman skrev: On 14/06/2012 10:45, Leslie Jensen wrote: When I do freebsd-update install I get this error: Installing updates...install: ///usr/src/lib/libc/gen/libc_dlopen.c: No such file or directory I think it's because I do not have all sources installed. So

RE: freebsd-update install question

2012-06-14 Thread Dale Scott
Should I install the libc souces? I had this error when upgrading 8.x (8.1 to 8.2?), and solved it by creating the directory only (actual sources not required). I recall someone had posted this solution to the list at the time. Regards, Dale ___

Re: freebsd-update Not Recognizing Updated Custom Kernel for 9.0-RELEASE-p3

2012-06-12 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Resend as I lost cc questions@ by mistake Ryan Frederick wrote: I have several FreeBSD 9 systems with custom compiled kernels. After using freebsd-update to go from 9.0-RELEASE-p2 to 9.0-RELEASE-p3 this morning I rebuilt the kernels. However after recompiling, installing, and

Re: freebsd-update Not Recognizing Updated Custom Kernel for 9.0-RELEASE-p3

2012-06-12 Thread Ryan Frederick
I realized I made a couple of wording/clarification errors in my original message. First just about all of these kernels are not custom but simply locally compiled with no custom modifications. Second the locally compiled kernels are all named GENERIC (no custom name). Ryan On 6/12/12 2:29 PM,

Re: freebsd-update no mirrors?

2012-06-03 Thread RW
On Sun, 03 Jun 2012 12:47:47 +0100 Chris Whitehouse wrote: c400# uname -a FreeBSD c400 9.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Jan 3 07:15:25 UTC 2012 r...@obrian.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 Following the handbook: c400# freebsd-update -r 9-STABLE upgrade ...

Re: freebsd-update no mirrors?

2012-06-03 Thread Chris Whitehouse
On 03/06/2012 13:00, RW wrote: On Sun, 03 Jun 2012 12:47:47 +0100 Chris Whitehouse wrote: c400# uname -a FreeBSD c400 9.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Jan 3 07:15:25 UTC 2012 r...@obrian.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 Following the handbook: c400# freebsd-update

Re: freebsd-update not updating reported patchlevel

2012-05-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 03/05/2012 23:43, Robert Bonomi wrote: Amazingly, this very question was covered on this list within the last few hours. grin It's not that much of a coincidence. We always get a rash of queries like this every time there's a security advisory and consequently a lot of people are

Re: freebsd-update not updating reported patchlevel

2012-05-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 03/05/2012 22:52, Mike Brown wrote: For example, with this latest OpenSSL security update, running 'freebsd-update fetch' says (among other things) The following files will be updated as part of updating to 8.2-RELEASE-p7 and WARNING: FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p3 is approaching its

Re: freebsd-update not updating reported patchlevel

2012-05-04 Thread Robert Bonomi
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Fri May 4 02:54:56 2012 Date: Fri, 04 May 2012 08:52:24 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-update not updating reported patchlevel On 03/05/2012 23:43, Robert Bonomi

Re: freebsd-update not updating reported patchlevel

2012-05-04 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 4 May 2012 04:14:05 -0500 (CDT), Robert Bonomi wrote: What is required is a differentation between the _kernel_ revision level, and the patchlevel of the entire base system. Store the kernel revision level -in- the kernel. Use the 'standard' THREE-level version numbering

Re: freebsd-update not updating reported patchlevel

2012-05-04 Thread Robert Bonomi
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Fri, 4 May 2012 04:14:05 -0500 (CDT), Robert Bonomi wrote: What is required is a differentation between the _kernel_ revision level, and the patchlevel of the entire base system. Store the kernel revision level -in- the kernel. Use the 'standard'

Re: freebsd-update not updating reported patchlevel

2012-05-04 Thread Daniel Staal
On 2012-05-04 10:45, Polytropon wrote: Allow me to extent the approach: For -STABLE versions (e. g. if updated per CVS), those files could contain the build number and the date of the currently installed -STABLE snapshot. A separation of a kernel version file and a world version file is useful

Re: freebsd-update not updating reported patchlevel

2012-05-04 Thread Polytropon
First of all, thanks for explaining your point of view. Allow me to add a few thoughts: On Fri, 4 May 2012 11:44:49 -0500 (CDT), Robert Bonomi wrote: Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Fri, 4 May 2012 04:14:05 -0500 (CDT), Robert Bonomi wrote: What is required is a differentation

Re: freebsd-update not updating reported patchlevel

2012-05-04 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 4 May 2012, at 16:45, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Fri, 4 May 2012 04:14:05 -0500 (CDT), Robert Bonomi wrote: What is required is a differentation between the _kernel_ revision level, and the patchlevel of the entire base system. Store the kernel revision level -in- the kernel.

Re: freebsd-update not updating reported patchlevel

2012-05-04 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 4 May 2012 16:45:51 -0500 (CDT), Robert Bonomi wrote: Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: First of all, thanks for explaining your point of view. Allow me to add a few thoughts: On Fri, 4 May 2012 11:44:49 -0500 (CDT), Robert Bonomi wrote: Polytropon free...@edvax.de

Re: freebsd-update not updating reported patchlevel

2012-05-03 Thread Robert Bonomi
Mike Brown m...@skew.org wrote; I installed 8.2-RELEASE when it was new, and have been just using freebsd-update since then. I run freebsd-update whenever there are new critical patches. But for some reason, my system's reported patchlevel number hasn't updated since p3. [sneck] But

Re: freebsd-update; What did I do?

2012-01-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 31/01/2012 13:55, Martin McCormick wrote: I started to run freebsd-update to upgrade a 8.x system to 9.0-RELEASE # freebsd-update -r 9.0-RELEASE upgrade Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature for 8.2-RELEASE from

Re: freebsd-update; What did I do?

2012-01-31 Thread Martin McCormick
Matthew Seaman writes: That's a known problem and fixable by first updating your 8.2-RELEASE machine to the latest patch level before trying the update to 9.0 It appears to be working now. Thank you. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: freebsd-update and archs

2012-01-23 Thread Colin Percival
On 01/22/12 03:45, Christer Solskogen wrote: On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Colin Percival cperc...@freebsd.org wrote: Try doing a release cross-build and compare it against a non-crossed release build; extract the built tarballs and send me a list of which ones aren't identical. I know

Re: freebsd-update and archs

2012-01-23 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Colin Percival cperc...@freebsd.org wrote: On 01/22/12 03:45, Christer Solskogen wrote: I just did, and the file list is the same. Or do you want me to do a md5 of every file? Yes, I meant to compare the contents of files (or their hashes of course). Here you

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