I just finished installing my new silent router with 6.2R and took freebsd-update for a spin, just wanting to try it out as I usually compile a kernel with ALTQ Notice the advertised p3 and the p2 I got in the end: C3# freebsd-update fetch Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 1 mirrors found. Fetching public key from update1.FreeBSD.org... done. Fetching metadata signature from update1.FreeBSD.org... done. Fetching metadata index... done. Fetching 2 metadata files... done. Inspecting system... done. Preparing to download files... done. Fetching 18 patches.....10.... done. Applying patches... done. The following files will be updated as part of updating to 6.2-RELEASE-p3: /boot/kernel/kernel /etc/rc.d/jail /usr/bin/dig /usr/bin/host /usr/bin/nslookup /usr/bin/nsupdate /usr/sbin/dnssec-signzone /usr/sbin/freebsd-update /usr/sbin/lwresd /usr/sbin/named /usr/sbin/named-checkconf /usr/sbin/named-checkzone /usr/src/contrib/bind9/lib/dns/include/dns/validator.h /usr/src/contrib/bind9/lib/dns/resolver.c /usr/src/contrib/bind9/lib/dns/validator.c /usr/src/etc/rc.d/jail /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh /usr/src/sys/netinet6/nd6.c /usr/src/usr.sbin/freebsd-update/freebsd-update.sh C3# freebsd-update install Installing updates... done. C3# uname -a FreeBSD C3.bsdtech.org 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 10:40:27 UTC 2007 root@dessler.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 After rebooting: C3# uname -a FreeBSD C3.bsdtech.org 6.2-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p2 #0: Tue Feb 27 22:41:06 UTC 2007 root@i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 C3# freebsd-update fetch Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 1 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature from update1.FreeBSD.org... done. Fetching metadata index... done. Inspecting system... done. Preparing to download files... done. No updates needed to update system to 6.2-RELEASE-p3. -- Joao Barros
Joao Barros wrote:> I just finished installing my new silent router with 6.2R and took > freebsd-update for a spin... > > C3# uname -a > FreeBSD C3.bsdtech.org 6.2-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p2 #0: Tue > Feb 27 22:41:06 UTC 2007 > root@i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 > > C3# freebsd-update fetch > [...] > No updates needed to update system to 6.2-RELEASE-p3.This may look odd, but it's actually correct. The version number reported by `uname` is the version number of the kernel, and the change from 6.2-RELEASE-p2 to 6.2-RELEASE-p3 didn't affect the kernel. Colin Percival