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

From: Graham Perrin <grahamperrin_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2022 22:21:20 UTC 
On 01/12/2022 15:35, paul beard 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.
>
> -- 
> Paul Beard / www.paulbeard.org/ <http://www.paulbeard.org/>


FAO Sergio: hi, I think there should be an FAQ entry about the p numbers.

Paul did gain answers, on list, but questions of this nature are fairly 
frequently asked. Yesterday's <https://redd.it/z8voo1>, for example.