wrong patch number in releng/10.1?

Guido Falsi mad at madpilot.net
Wed Jun 10 10:43:12 UTC 2015


On 06/10/15 12:34, Kurt Jaeger wrote:
> Hi!
> 
>> You kernel hasn't been rebuilt then.
> 
> Yes, but normally, freebsd-update provides me with an updated kernel.
> 
> The update provides (among other stuff):
> 
> /boot/kernel/zfs.ko
> /boot/kernel/zfs.ko.symbols
> /lib/libzpool.so.2
> 
> so it does not touch the value uname reports until a new kernel is built. 
> 
> It's surprising, but I can live with that.

It's always been like this with binary updates AFAIK. The kernel binary
gets updated only if needed.

There is the freebsd-version(1) command to get information about the
userland version, which should always be equal or bigger than the kernel
version.

-- 
Guido Falsi <mad at madpilot.net>


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