patches and uname -a

[Roberto Nunnari]

Thank you Ceri and Jaap for your time.

Ceri, edit src/sys/conf/newvers.sh and replace

BRANCH="RELEASE-p23"
with
BRANCH="RELEASE-p24"

would be enough??

Best regards.


Ceri Davies wrote:
> 
> On 12 Jan 2006, at 12:32, Roberto Nunnari wrote:
> 
>> Hello.
>>
>> Please also answer to my mailbox as I'm not on the list.
>>
>> After upgrading by sources and build world, uname correctly
>> reports the current version of the system
>>
>> Today for the first time I applied all the relevant patches
>> instead and all went well. The box was 5.3-RELEASE-p23.
>>
>> The applied patches should correspond to 5.3-RELEASE-p24, but:
>>
>> # uname -r
>> 5.3-RELEASE-p23
>>
>> and:
>>
>> # sysctl kern.version
>> kern.version: FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p23 #0: Tue Jan  3 15:40:08 CET 2006
>> ...
>>
>> I'd like to be able to see the correct version using
>> 'uname -r'..
>>
>> Does anybody know how can you make uname report the
>> real version? What if you recompile the kernel after
>> patching the system? Would that do the trick?
> 
> 
> Recompiling the kernel is the correct way to change the output of  
> uname(1), but before you do so, you should be aware that that patch  
> number is taken from the BRANCH variable in src/sys/conf/newvers.sh.   
> Check that it says "5.3-RELEASE-p24" before you waste time  recompiling 
> the kernel.
> 
> Ceri