Re: what am I missing RE: freebsd-update?

Hello Paul !

Have you tried to run:

freebsd-version -ku

The kernel version, and userland version are tracked separately. Maybe the two are being confused ? Otherwise it sounds like you have followed the instructions correctly.

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On Thursday, December 1st, 2022 at 12:35 PM, paul beard <paulbeard@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am running 12.3-RELEASE-p6 and ran freebsd-update fetch and freebsd-update install and I get this after the cycle ran:
>
> No updates needed to update system to 12.3-RELEASE-p10.
> No updates are available to install.
>
> I have rebooted, thinking that it was necessary to load a new kernel and all the bits. Still on p6…
>
> I see this in /boot so something happened…I guess p10 was released on Sep 29?
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 20480 Sep 29 07:17 kernel
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 20480 Dec 1 06:52 kernel.old
>
> All new .ko stuff there as well. So why is the old kernel dated today but not what I assume to be the new one if all the ko files are dated today.
>
> How do I get freebsd-update to actually install updates? The man page doesn't help me very much.
>
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> Paul Beard / www.paulbeard.org/