On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:00:47 +0000 (UTC), Walter Hurry wrote: > When I issue 'freebsd-update fetch install I see this: > ---------------------------------------- > Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found. > Fetching metadata signature for 9.1-RELEASE from update5.freebsd.org... > done. > Fetching metadata index... done. > Inspecting system... done. > Preparing to download files... done. > > No updates needed to update system to 9.1-RELEASE-p2. > No updates are available to install. > ---------------------------------------- > So if 'No updates (are) needed to update system to 9.1-RELEASE-p2', > how do I actually update to 9.1-RELEASE-p2? > > $ uname -r > 9.1-RELEASE
The kernel's version message will only change if the _kernel_ has been receiving changes. So, for example, if you update from 9.1 to 9.1-p2, and _no_ change has been written to the kernel, it will still report 9.1, even though the updates for -p2 have been applied to other places (like system binaries or libraries). You can use the -r option to freebsd-update to explicitely specify a version to update to. See "man freebsd-update" for details. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
