freebsd-update problem (on 6.2)

Colin Percival cperciva at freebsd.org
Wed Mar 28 19:07:51 UTC 2007


Miroslav Lachman wrote:
> I did cvsup to RELENG_6_2 today and make build(world|kernel)
> install(kernel|world)
> 
> After mergemaster & reboot uname reports 6.2-RELEASE-p3 but
> `freebsd-update fetch` downloads patches "to 6.2-RELEASE-p3" so I
> installed them by `freebsd-update install`.
> 
> uname reports 6.2-RELEASE-p2 after reboot!

This is correct.  uname(1) reports the kernel version, and the change
from 6.2-RELEASE-p2 to 6.2-RELEASE-p3 did not affect the kernel.

> The following files are affected by updates, but no changes have
> been downloaded because the files have been modified locally:
> /etc/rc.d/jail

This is correct.  The version you have here is not the version which
was distributed with the release -- it's the version in the latest
RELENG_6_2.

Colin Percival


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