Upgrade to FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE and OSTYPE environment variable

[David Christensen]

On 2/13/21 7:59 PM, David Christensen wrote:
> freebsd-questions:
> 
> I am upgrading my FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE machines to 12.2-RELEASE.  The 
> upgrade process seemed to go smoothly, but afterwards I noted that the 
> OSTYPE environment variable still has the old value:
> 
> 2021-02-13 19:56:02 toor at f1 ~
> # freebsd-version ; uname -a
> 12.2-RELEASE-p3
> FreeBSD f1.tracy.holgerdanske.com 12.2-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 
> 12.2-RELEASE-p3 GENERIC  amd64
> 
> 2021-02-13 19:56:11 toor at f1 ~
> # env | grep -i freebsd
> OSTYPE=freebsd12.1
> 
> 
> Please advise.

Apparently, the upgrade did not go as well as I had thought.  Running 
'freebsd-update upgrade' and/or 'freebsd-update fetch install' produced 
some additional results.  On one machine, I uninstalled Bash and 
installed Bash again.


David