Re: freebsd-update - To 'Stable'?

2012-11-22 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 11/22/12 17:32, Karl Pielorz wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a number of 9.0-R boxes, some of which I've updated in the past > to 9.0-STABLE (as of the date they were done). > > I'm looking at switching to 'freebsd-update' - is there an equivalent > way t

Re: freebsd-update - To 'Stable'?

2012-11-22 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 22 Nov 2012 16:32:21 +, Karl Pielorz wrote: > I'm looking at switching to 'freebsd-update' - is there an equivalent way > to get it to update me to '-STABLE'? No. The freebsd-update program can only be used to follow the RELEASE branch, plus t

freebsd-update - To 'Stable'?

2012-11-22 Thread Karl Pielorz
Hi, I have a number of 9.0-R boxes, some of which I've updated in the past to 9.0-STABLE (as of the date they were done). I'm looking at switching to 'freebsd-update' - is there an equivalent way to get it to update me to '-STABLE'? i.e. If I run this on a

Re: gpt booting (Was: Re: boot problem after freebsd-update from 9.1-RC2 to 9.1-RC3)

2012-11-21 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 21 Nov 2012, Arthur Chance wrote: On 11/21/12 05:11, Warren Block wrote: gptboot looks for the first UFS partition. Maybe /boot/boot can be modified to do that also. It's a little more complicated than that Warren. AIUI gptboot first looks (in partition order) for partitions with bo

gpt booting (Was: Re: boot problem after freebsd-update from 9.1-RC2 to 9.1-RC3)

2012-11-21 Thread Arthur Chance
On 11/21/12 05:11, Warren Block wrote: gptboot looks for the first UFS partition. Maybe /boot/boot can be modified to do that also. It's a little more complicated than that Warren. AIUI gptboot first looks (in partition order) for partitions with both the bootme and bootonce attributes set.

Re: boot problem after freebsd-update from 9.1-RC2 to 9.1-RC3

2012-11-20 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 20 Nov 2012, free...@johnea.net wrote: On 2012-11-20 14:28, Gary Aitken wrote: On 11/20/12 13:34, free...@johnea.net wrote: freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.1-RC3 ... "Not UFS" "No ada0" "No boot" Seems like it isn't supposed to work for 9.1-RC2

Re: boot problem after freebsd-update from 9.1-RC2 to 9.1-RC3

2012-11-20 Thread freebsd
On 2012-11-20 14:28, Gary Aitken wrote: > On 11/20/12 13:34, free...@johnea.net wrote: >> freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.1-RC3 ... >> "Not UFS" "No ada0" "No boot" > > Seems like it isn't supposed to work for 9.1-RC2 > I previously u

Re: boot problem after freebsd-update from 9.1-RC2 to 9.1-RC3

2012-11-20 Thread Gary Aitken
orsbackup# gpart bootcode -b /boot/boot mirror/gm0s1 > > > The system rebooted several times without issue. This system is a testbed for > 9.1 and is not yet deployed as a production server. > > I thought I'd update to 9.1-RC3, so I ran: > > freebsd-update upgrad

boot problem after freebsd-update from 9.1-RC2 to 9.1-RC3

2012-11-20 Thread freebsd
to 9.1-RC3, so I ran: freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.1-RC3 freebsd-update install reboot The system won't boot and complains about: "Not UFS" "No ada0" "No boot" Before I charge ahead with reissuing the gpart bootcode commands I thought I'd: a) make others awa

Re: Upgrading Using "FreeBSD Update"

2012-11-06 Thread Jinsong Zhao
Hi, >> My questions is: how to rebuild all third-party applications? I have >> kept the ports tree up to date using >> # portsnap fetch update >> and >> # portmaster -Ga >> every day. >> ... > > I would advise you to drop -G option and use these entries: > # portsnap fetch update > # portmaster -

Re: Upgrading Using "FreeBSD Update"

2012-11-06 Thread jb
Jinsong Zhao yeah.net> writes: > ... > My questions is: how to rebuild all third-party applications? I have > kept the ports tree up to date using > # portsnap fetch update > and > # portmaster -Ga > every day. > ... I would advise you to drop -G option and use these entries: # portsnap fetch

Upgrading Using "FreeBSD Update"

2012-11-06 Thread Jinsong Zhao
Hi there, I am going to upgrade my FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE to 9.1-RELEASE according to http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.0R/installation.html However, I don't know how to follow the step below: ##start here## # freebsd-update install At this point, users of systems being upgraded

freebsd-update IDS

2012-10-27 Thread Mike Clarke
I've installed 9.1-RC2 after using svn to download /usr/src. Shortly after rebooting into the new system, and just out of curiosity, I ran "freebsd-update IDS" and was surprised to see that it reported 735 hash mismatches. Some of these were for files modified locally like /etc

Re: FreeBSD update

2012-10-09 Thread Andreas Rudisch
On Tue, 09 Oct 2012 11:47:02 +0200 Istvan Gabor wrote: > FreeBSD Handbook (at the end of section 25.2.2) says: > > "However, freebsd-update will always update the /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh > file. > The current patch level (as indicated by the -p number reported by unam

Re: FreeBSD update

2012-10-09 Thread Istvan Gabor
the computer uname gives p3 on the updated system: > > > > Why does uname reports p3 while freebsd-update indicates p4 state? > > Hi, > > if freebsd-update does not update the kernel uname will not show the > 'correct' patch level. > > Andreas Thanks And

Re: FreeBSD update

2012-10-08 Thread Andreas Rudisch
On Mon, 08 Oct 2012 16:52:24 +0200 Istvan Gabor wrote: > As I remember correctly during the fetch I saw a message that the current > patch level is p4. > After rebooting the computer uname gives p3 on the updated system: > > Why does uname reports p3 while freebsd-update indicate

FreeBSD update

2012-10-08 Thread Istvan Gabor
Hello: I updated FreeBSD 9.0 RELEASE (FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Jan 3 07:15:25 UTC 2012 r...@obrian.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386) using freebsd-update fetch and freebsd-update install commands. As I remember correctly during the fetch I saw a message

freebsd-update

2012-10-05 Thread Doug Hardie
I am using freebsd-update to update a system running a generic kernel. I ran into an interesting situation where after it has downloaded the updates it enters a configuration phase where it shows "updated" config files with the old and new. You can hit return to enter vi and clean u

Re: freebsd-update

2012-08-26 Thread doug
On Sun, 26 Aug 2012, Walter Hurry wrote: On Sun, 26 Aug 2012 14:24:34 -0400, doug wrote: In doing an update from 8.3 --> 9.0 I messed up the merge on /etc/ttys. This has interesting consequences BTW. Are there any docs on how to do this? Here's mine. Note: I changed ttyv8 from off to on as I

Re: freebsd-update

2012-08-26 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sun, 26 Aug 2012 14:24:34 -0400, doug wrote: > In doing an update from 8.3 --> 9.0 I messed up the merge on /etc/ttys. > This has interesting consequences BTW. Are there any docs on how to do > this? Here's mine. Note: I changed ttyv8 from off to on as I am using xdm. console none

freebsd-update

2012-08-26 Thread doug
In doing an update from 8.3 --> 9.0 I messed up the merge on /etc/ttys. This has interesting consequences BTW. Are there any docs on how to do this? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questio

Re: freebsd-update question.

2012-08-23 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 13:49:18 -0400 (EDT), d...@safeport.com wrote: > After seeing if xorg and twm would just work, I did remove all packages with > pkg_delete. That did not clear out all of /usr/local. You can do a manual cleanup of /usr/local, entirely removing it and then reconstructing its str

Re: freebsd-update question.

2012-08-23 Thread doug
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 11:36:51 -0400 (EDT), d...@safeport.com wrote: I wanted to see if I could get an 8.1 system updated to 9.0 (mostly) with freebsd-update. I did this with a source update to RELENG_8_3 and then did the standard stuff to get to 9.0 perl

Re: freebsd-update question.

2012-08-23 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 11:36:51 -0400 (EDT), d...@safeport.com wrote: > I wanted to see if I could get an 8.1 system updated to 9.0 (mostly) with > freebsd-update. I did this with a source update to RELENG_8_3 and then did > the > standard stuff to get to 9.0 > > perl and xd

freebsd-update question.

2012-08-23 Thread doug
I wanted to see if I could get an 8.1 system updated to 9.0 (mostly) with freebsd-update. I did this with a source update to RELENG_8_3 and then did the standard stuff to get to 9.0 perl and xdm both gave errors that libutil.so.9 was missing. scanning google and questions suggested this

Re: freebsd-update fetch trying to update custom kernel

2012-08-20 Thread Denis
> If you're building your own customised kernel, why don't you just build the > entire system from source? I've not used freebsd-update yet and probably > won't. Is it just a matter of time, i.e. waiting for the compilation to > finish? Actually I built this

Re: freebsd-update fetch trying to update custom kernel

2012-08-20 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
== Denis wrote on Mon 20.Aug'12 at 16:41:56 +0400 == > > Then why not follow my suggestion of _letting_ freebsd-update > > update the kernel, but _use_ a different one instead which it > > won't touch? In /boot/loader.conf: > > > > kernel="m

Re: freebsd-update fetch trying to update custom kernel

2012-08-20 Thread Denis
> Then why not follow my suggestion of _letting_ freebsd-update > update the kernel, but _use_ a different one instead which it > won't touch? In /boot/loader.conf: > > kernel="mykernel" > bootfile="/boot/mykernel/kernel" > > Now fr

Re: freebsd-update fetch trying to update custom kernel

2012-08-20 Thread Polytropon
l > > Yes, I rebuilt my custom kernel after. But this doesn't help - every > time I run "freebsd-update fetch" it suugest me to update kernel and > kernel.symbols. Then why not follow my suggestion of _letting_ freebsd-update update the kernel, but _use_ a different one

Re: freebsd-update fetch trying to update custom kernel

2012-08-20 Thread Denis
ery time I run "freebsd-update fetch" it suugest me to update kernel and kernel.symbols. Best regards, Denis ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any ma

Re: freebsd-update fetch trying to update custom kernel

2012-08-20 Thread Alexandre
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Denis wrote: > Hi, > > I have FreeBSD 9.0 (p4) with custom kernel. > > "uname -i" says it: > HOMEWIFI90 > > However, when I run "freebsd-update fetch" command it would like to > update my kernel as well: > >

freebsd-update fetch trying to update custom kernel

2012-08-20 Thread Denis
Hi, I have FreeBSD 9.0 (p4) with custom kernel. "uname -i" says it: HOMEWIFI90 However, when I run "freebsd-update fetch" command it would like to update my kernel as well: freebsd-update fetch Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found. Fetching metada

Re: freebsd-update and csup - I'm going around in circles.

2012-08-17 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 01:48:18 +0200, Polytropon wrote: < snip problem and comprehensive answer > That's really helpful. Very many thanks, Polytropon. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-quest

Re: freebsd-update and csup - I'm going around in circles.

2012-08-16 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 21:24:37 + (UTC), Walter Hurry wrote: > Every time I run "freebsd-update fetch" it says it wants to update the > following 5 source files "as part of updating to 9.0-RELEASE-p4": > > /usr/src/sys/amd64/amd64/trap.c > /usr/src/sys/con

freebsd-update and csup - I'm going around in circles.

2012-08-16 Thread Walter Hurry
Please forgive me if this is a daft question; I am quite new to FreeBSD. I have read the handbook assiduously and am attempting to follow it. This is 9.0-RELEASE-p3, by the way. Every time I run "freebsd-update fetch" it says it wants to update the following 5 source files "as p

Re: How to keep freebsd-update from trashing custom kernel?

2012-08-13 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Brett Glass wrote: > At 11:33 AM 8/13/2012, Michael Sierchio wrote: > >> And it does, in my experience. If the hash of the kernel doesn't >> match that of the distribution (or recent update), freebsd-update >> leaves it alone. &g

Re: How to keep freebsd-update from trashing custom kernel?

2012-08-13 Thread Brett Glass
At 12:59 PM 8/13/2012, Polytropon wrote: I've never seen a system having a /boot/GENERIC directory containing the GENERIC kernel. It does not come that way. The Handbook recommends that one manuall copy the original kernel from the distribution into /boot/GENERIC before building a custom kerne

Re: How to keep freebsd-update from trashing custom kernel?

2012-08-13 Thread Brett Glass
At 11:33 AM 8/13/2012, Michael Sierchio wrote: And it does, in my experience. If the hash of the kernel doesn't match that of the distribution (or recent update), freebsd-update leaves it alone. That is what I thought it would do, based on the docs. However, when I recently ran fr

Re: How to keep freebsd-update from trashing custom kernel?

2012-08-13 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 10:35:12 -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > At 05:24 AM 8/13/2012, Polytropon wrote: > > >That seems to be the default behaviour, as freebsd-update is > >not supposed to be used with a custom kernel. It works with > >GENERIC kernels (because it upd

Re: How to keep freebsd-update from trashing custom kernel?

2012-08-13 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Brett Glass wrote: > Actually, freebsd-update is claimed to respect custom kernels. ... And it does, in my experience. If the hash of the kernel doesn't match that of the distribution (or recent update), freebsd-update leaves

Re: How to keep freebsd-update from trashing custom kernel?

2012-08-13 Thread Brett Glass
At 05:24 AM 8/13/2012, Polytropon wrote: That seems to be the default behaviour, as freebsd-update is not supposed to be used with a custom kernel. It works with GENERIC kernels (because it updates them by overwriting). Actually, freebsd-update is claimed to respect custom kernels. See the

Re: How to keep freebsd-update from trashing custom kernel?

2012-08-13 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 20:50:43 -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > Everyone: > > Just ran freebsd-update (fetch, then install) on a system on which > I run a customized kernel, and discovered that it has overwritten > my custom kernel... even though I'd copied the original to &g

How to keep freebsd-update from trashing custom kernel?

2012-08-12 Thread Brett Glass
Everyone: Just ran freebsd-update (fetch, then install) on a system on which I run a customized kernel, and discovered that it has overwritten my custom kernel... even though I'd copied the original to /boot/GENERIC when I first installed the system. I was under the impression that cre

Freeze when running freebsd-update

2012-06-26 Thread Robert Simmons
here is 384M of swap encrypted using geli_swap_flags="-d -l 256 -s 4096". The rest of the disk space is encrypted with "geli init -b -v -a hmac/sha256 -l 256 -s 4096 /dev/ada0p4". After I've installed a VPS in this way, I run the freebsd-update fetch command and it freezes a

Re: freebsd-update from recent 8-STABLE to 9.0-RELEASE issues

2012-06-25 Thread Zane C. B-H.
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 14:12:36 +0100 RW wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 06:53:45 -0500 > Zane C. B-H. wrote: > > > On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 12:26:12 +0100 > > RW wrote: > > > > > > freebsd-update doesn't support development branches, you have > &g

Re: freebsd-update from recent 8-STABLE to 9.0-RELEASE issues

2012-06-25 Thread RW
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 06:53:45 -0500 Zane C. B-H. wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 12:26:12 +0100 > RW wrote: > > > freebsd-update doesn't support development branches, you have to go > > from security branch to security branch. > > I know it can't be u

Re: freebsd-update from recent 8-STABLE to 9.0-RELEASE issues

2012-06-25 Thread Zane C. B-H.
8.3-PRERELEASE FreeBSD > > 8.3-PRERELEASE #0: Sat Feb 25 04:55:35 CST 2012 > > kits...@shiela.vulpes.vvelox.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/sheila > > amd64 [root@shiela]/root# freebsd-update -r 9.0-RELEASE upgrade > > Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found.

Re: freebsd-update from recent 8-STABLE to 9.0-RELEASE issues

2012-06-25 Thread RW
a.vulpes.vvelox.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/sheila amd64 > [root@shiela]/root# freebsd-update -r 9.0-RELEASE upgrade Looking up > update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found. Fetching public key > from update5.FreeBSD.org... failed. Fetching public key from > update4.FreeBSD.org... failed

freebsd-update from recent 8-STABLE to 9.0-RELEASE issues

2012-06-25 Thread Zane C. B-H.
Howdy! Any one have any idea what is going on below? [root@shiela]/root# uname -a FreeBSD shiela.vulpes.vvelox.net 8.3-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 8.3-PRERELEASE #0: Sat Feb 25 04:55:35 CST 2012 kits...@shiela.vulpes.vvelox.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/sheila amd64 [root@shiela]/root# freebsd-update

Re: freebsd-update install question

2012-06-20 Thread Leslie Jensen
talled the latest update with freebsd-update and it went well without any warnings. Thanks for the advice :-) /Leslie ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send a

Problem with freebsd-update

2012-06-19 Thread Doug Hardie
I tried to update an amd64 FreeBSD 9.0 p0 system via freebsd-update tonight. It fetched everything fine. However, the install just hung after about 10 minutes. The 2 sh processes are basically doing nothing. Not consuming any processor time and not doing any I/O. I killed it and tried

RE: freebsd-update install question

2012-06-14 Thread Dale Scott
> Should I install the libc souces? I had this error when upgrading 8.x (8.1 to 8.2?), and solved it by creating the directory only (actual sources not required). I recall someone had posted this solution to the list at the time. Regards, Dale ___ fr

Re: freebsd-update install question

2012-06-14 Thread Leslie Jensen
2012-06-14 12:18, Matthew Seaman skrev: On 14/06/2012 10:45, Leslie Jensen wrote: When I do freebsd-update install I get this error: Installing updates...install: ///usr/src/lib/libc/gen/libc_dlopen.c: No such file or directory I think it's because I do not have all sources installe

Re: freebsd-update install question

2012-06-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 14/06/2012 10:45, Leslie Jensen wrote: > When I do > > freebsd-update install > > I get this error: > > Installing updates...install: ///usr/src/lib/libc/gen/libc_dlopen.c: No > such file or directory > > I think it's because I do not have all sources ins

Re: freebsd-update procedure, question

2012-06-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 14/06/2012 10:41, Leslie Jensen wrote: > When one recives the > > FreeBSD Errata Notice or > > FreeBSD Security Advisory > > The instruction is to do: > > > # freebsd-update fetch > > # freebsd-update install > > > > From earlier d

freebsd-update install question

2012-06-14 Thread Leslie Jensen
When I do freebsd-update install I get this error: Installing updates...install: ///usr/src/lib/libc/gen/libc_dlopen.c: No such file or directory I think it's because I do not have all sources installed. So I just want to confirm that it's the case. Also, should I care and i

freebsd-update procedure, question

2012-06-14 Thread Leslie Jensen
When one recives the FreeBSD Errata Notice or FreeBSD Security Advisory The instruction is to do: # freebsd-update fetch # freebsd-update install From earlier discussions on this list about the -px number not changing, I usually rebuild and install the kernel. My question is: Do I

freebsd-update problem

2012-06-13 Thread Sean Page
Hi, Hopefully a simple problem with a simple solution. Trying to update a server using freebsd-update, but when I try I get the following: # freebsd-update fetch install Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature for 8.3-RELEASE from update5.FreeBSD.org

Re: freebsd-update Not Recognizing Updated Custom Kernel for 9.0-RELEASE-p3

2012-06-12 Thread Ryan Frederick
, Ryan Frederick wrote: > I have several FreeBSD 9 systems with custom compiled kernels. After > using freebsd-update to go from 9.0-RELEASE-p2 to 9.0-RELEASE-p3 this > morning I rebuilt the kernels. However after recompiling, installing, > and rebooting with the custom kernels subsequent u

Re: freebsd-update Not Recognizing Updated Custom Kernel for 9.0-RELEASE-p3

2012-06-12 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Resend as I lost cc questions@ by mistake Ryan Frederick wrote: > I have several FreeBSD 9 systems with custom compiled kernels. After > using freebsd-update to go from 9.0-RELEASE-p2 to 9.0-RELEASE-p3 this > morning I rebuilt the kernels. However after recompiling, installin

freebsd-update Not Recognizing Updated Custom Kernel for 9.0-RELEASE-p3

2012-06-12 Thread Ryan Frederick
I have several FreeBSD 9 systems with custom compiled kernels. After using freebsd-update to go from 9.0-RELEASE-p2 to 9.0-RELEASE-p3 this morning I rebuilt the kernels. However after recompiling, installing, and rebooting with the custom kernels subsequent update checks using freebsd-update

Re: freebsd-update no mirrors?

2012-06-03 Thread Chris Whitehouse
On 03/06/2012 13:00, RW wrote: On Sun, 03 Jun 2012 12:47:47 +0100 Chris Whitehouse wrote: c400# uname -a FreeBSD c400 9.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Jan 3 07:15:25 UTC 2012 r...@obrian.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 Following the handbook: c400# freebsd-update

Re: freebsd-update no mirrors?

2012-06-03 Thread RW
On Sun, 03 Jun 2012 12:47:47 +0100 Chris Whitehouse wrote: > > c400# uname -a > FreeBSD c400 9.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Jan 3 07:15:25 > UTC 2012 > r...@obrian.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 > > Following the handbook: > > c400#

freebsd-update no mirrors?

2012-06-03 Thread Chris Whitehouse
c400# uname -a FreeBSD c400 9.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Jan 3 07:15:25 UTC 2012 r...@obrian.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 Following the handbook: c400# freebsd-update -r 9-STABLE upgrade Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found. Fetching

Re: freebsd-update not updating reported patchlevel

2012-05-04 Thread Polytropon
LE RECORD of > > > 'what was done'. 'add to top' has several disadvantages. First, > > > a performance issue, you do have to read down the log to find the > > > first 'END' line rather than being able to seek directly to it. > > > S

Re: freebsd-update not updating reported patchlevel

2012-05-04 Thread Robert Bonomi
Polytropon wrote: > > First of all, thanks for explaining your point of view. > Allow me to add a few thoughts: > > On Fri, 4 May 2012 11:44:49 -0500 (CDT), Robert Bonomi wrote: > > > > Polytropon wrote: > > > On Fri, 4 May 2012 04:14:05 -0500 (CDT), Robert Bonomi wrote: > > > > What is require

Re: freebsd-update not updating reported patchlevel

2012-05-04 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 4 May 2012, at 16:45, Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 4 May 2012 04:14:05 -0500 (CDT), Robert Bonomi wrote: >> What is required is a differentation between the _kernel_ revision level, >> and the patchlevel of the entire base system. >> >> Store the kernel revision level -in- the kernel. Use th

Re: freebsd-update not updating reported patchlevel

2012-05-04 Thread Polytropon
First of all, thanks for explaining your point of view. Allow me to add a few thoughts: On Fri, 4 May 2012 11:44:49 -0500 (CDT), Robert Bonomi wrote: > > Polytropon wrote: > > On Fri, 4 May 2012 04:14:05 -0500 (CDT), Robert Bonomi wrote: > > > What is required is a differentation between the _ke

Re: freebsd-update not updating reported patchlevel

2012-05-04 Thread Daniel Staal
On 2012-05-04 10:45, Polytropon wrote: Allow me to extent the approach: For -STABLE versions (e. g. if updated per CVS), those files could contain the "build number" and the date of the currently installed -STABLE "snapshot". A separation of a "kernel version file" and a "world version file" is

Re: freebsd-update not updating reported patchlevel

2012-05-04 Thread Robert Bonomi
quot;. (Who was, by the way, a real person.) Let me introduce you to, "O'Brien's Law" -- it says, very simply, and pithily, "Murphy was an OPTIMIST!!!" For systems work, and expecilly 'logging' it is imperative to prevent any opportunity for O'Brien

Re: freebsd-update not updating reported patchlevel

2012-05-04 Thread Polytropon
hould rather go to /var or even /var/log. :-) > With this kind of setup, and assuming that all distributed patchfiles have > 'unique' names, the 'patchlog' provides a roadmap for reconstructing the > state of the kernel and 'world' as of any particular poin

Re: freebsd-update not updating reported patchlevel

2012-05-04 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Fri May 4 02:54:56 2012 > Date: Fri, 04 May 2012 08:52:24 +0100 > From: Matthew Seaman > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: freebsd-update not updating reported patchlevel > > On 03/05/2012 23:43, Robert Bonomi wrote

Re: freebsd-update not updating reported patchlevel

2012-05-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 03/05/2012 22:52, Mike Brown wrote: > For example, with this latest OpenSSL security update, running > 'freebsd-update > fetch' says (among other things) "The following files will be updated as part > of updating to 8.2-RELEASE-p7" and "WARNING: FreeBSD

Re: freebsd-update not updating reported patchlevel

2012-05-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 03/05/2012 23:43, Robert Bonomi wrote: > Amazingly, this very question was covered on this list within the last few > hours. It's not that much of a coincidence. We always get a rash of queries like this every time there's a security advisory and consequently a lot of people are updating.

Re: freebsd-update not updating reported patchlevel

2012-05-03 Thread Robert Bonomi
Mike Brown wrote; > I installed 8.2-RELEASE when it was new, and have been just using > freebsd-update since then. I run freebsd-update whenever there are new > critical patches. But for some reason, my system's reported patchlevel number > hasn't updated since p3. [s

freebsd-update not updating reported patchlevel

2012-05-03 Thread Mike Brown
I installed 8.2-RELEASE when it was new, and have been just using freebsd-update since then. I run freebsd-update whenever there are new critical patches. But for some reason, my system's reported patchlevel number hasn't updated since p3. For example, with this latest OpenSSL secur

Re: freebsd-update; What did I do?

2012-01-31 Thread Martin McCormick
Matthew Seaman writes: > That's a known problem and fixable by first updating your 8.2-RELEASE > machine to the latest patch level before trying the update to 9.0 It appears to be working now. Thank you. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: freebsd-update; What did I do?

2012-01-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 31/01/2012 13:55, Martin McCormick wrote: > I started to run freebsd-update to upgrade a 8.x system > to 9.0-RELEASE > > # freebsd-update -r 9.0-RELEASE upgrade > > Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found. > Fetching metadata signature for 8.2

freebsd-update; What did I do?

2012-01-31 Thread Martin McCormick
I started to run freebsd-update to upgrade a 8.x system to 9.0-RELEASE # freebsd-update -r 9.0-RELEASE upgrade Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature for 8.2-RELEASE from update5.FreeBSD.org... done. Fetching metadata index... done

Re: freebsd-update and archs

2012-01-23 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 8:50 PM, Christer Solskogen wrote: > On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Colin Percival wrote: > >> Hmm, you've got almost everything being different there.  Did you use the >> same >> src tree as the release?  If you checked out the tree via CVS it won't match. >> > > Hang

Re: freebsd-update and archs

2012-01-23 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Colin Percival wrote: > Hmm, you've got almost everything being different there.  Did you use the same > src tree as the release?  If you checked out the tree via CVS it won't match. > Hang on. I cheated a little. I used the base.txz from the release and compared

Re: freebsd-update and archs

2012-01-23 Thread Colin Percival
On 01/23/12 06:59, Christer Solskogen wrote: > On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Colin Percival wrote: >> On 01/22/12 03:45, Christer Solskogen wrote: >>> I just did, and the file list is the same. Or do you want me to do a >>> md5 of every file? >> >> Yes, I meant to compare the contents of files

Re: freebsd-update and archs

2012-01-23 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Colin Percival wrote: > On 01/22/12 03:45, Christer Solskogen wrote: >> I just did, and the file list is the same. Or do you want me to do a >> md5 of every file? > > Yes, I meant to compare the contents of files (or their hashes of course). Here you go: http://an

Re: freebsd-update and archs

2012-01-23 Thread Colin Percival
On 01/22/12 03:45, Christer Solskogen wrote: > On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Colin Percival wrote: >> Try doing a release cross-build and compare it against a non-crossed release >> build; extract the built tarballs and send me a list of which ones aren't >> identical. I know which files "norm

Re: freebsd-update and archs

2012-01-22 Thread perryh
Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 21/01/2012 10:25, Christer Solskogen wrote: > > I've just finished installing FreeBSD on my "new" Mac mini G4 ... > > If that's not an Intel based Mac, then your definition of "new" is, > well, contrary to all accepted usage. s/"new"/newly acquired/ (I suspect). __

Re: freebsd-update and archs

2012-01-21 Thread Colin Percival
On 01/21/12 04:15, Christer Solskogen wrote: > On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Colin Percival wrote: >> We don't have suitable build hardware for other architectures, and there are >> some problems with release cross-building which aren't fixed yet. > > I found out that building ppc with TARGET

Re: freebsd-update and archs

2012-01-21 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Colin Percival wrote: > We don't have suitable build hardware for other architectures, and there are > some problems with release cross-building which aren't fixed yet. > I found out that building ppc with TARGET= worked nicely on 9.0-RELEASE. Do you know what pr

Re: freebsd-update and archs

2012-01-21 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 21/01/2012 10:25, Christer Solskogen wrote: >> I've just finished installing FreeBSD on my "new" Mac mini G4, and >> when I ran freebsd-update on it I found out that freebsd-update only >> supports

Re: freebsd-update and archs

2012-01-21 Thread Colin Percival
On 01/21/12 02:25, Christer Solskogen wrote: > I've just finished installing FreeBSD on my "new" Mac mini G4, and > when I ran freebsd-update on it I found out that freebsd-update only > supports i386 and amd64 architectures. > How come? We don't have s

Re: freebsd-update and archs

2012-01-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 21/01/2012 10:25, Christer Solskogen wrote: > I've just finished installing FreeBSD on my "new" Mac mini G4, and > when I ran freebsd-update on it I found out that freebsd-update only > supports i386 and amd64 architectures. > How come? If that's not an Intel ba

freebsd-update and archs

2012-01-21 Thread Christer Solskogen
Hi! I've just finished installing FreeBSD on my "new" Mac mini G4, and when I ran freebsd-update on it I found out that freebsd-update only supports i386 and amd64 architectures. How come? -- chs, ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org ma

Re: freebsd-update and src.txz

2012-01-20 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:24:53 +0100, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > Is it true that freebsd-update does not update the souce files from > 8.2-R to 9.0-RELEASE? I think also updating src/ is the default behaviour. See "man freebsd-update.conf", setting "Components":

freebsd-update and src.txz

2012-01-20 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Is it true that freebsd-update does not update the souce files from 8.2-R to 9.0-RELEASE? And if not what is the best way to get the src.txz installed on an updated system? I do have the disc1 iso. Is src.txz installed under /usr/src or /usr/src/sys

freebsd-update auto merge fails on trivial VC lines

2012-01-10 Thread Martin Koch Andersen
Hello, When upgrading from FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE to 9.0-RELEASE using freebsd-update, I'm asked to merge, what seems like, everything in /etc manually. And all of the merges are trivial version controls lines. E.g. my /etc/amd.map (which I never modified) begins with: # $FreeBSD: releng/8.

8.1-RELEASE-px freebsd-update buildkernel installkernel question

2012-01-09 Thread Bas Smeelen
Hi Since a while I notice on some 8.1-RELEASE machines that after a buildkernel and installkernel, besides the old kernel being moved to /boot/kernel.old, it also seems to get copied /boot/kernel.old1. I update most servers with freebsd-update which also update the sources from which the new

Re: freebsd-update

2011-12-04 Thread andrew clarke
On Sun 2011-12-04 11:06:29 UTC+0100, Dick Hoogendijk (d...@nagual.nl) wrote: > Why do I get a warning if I use freebsd-update about a renewal of my > FreeBSD installation within the next two months because after that time > it will nog be supported anymore? Presumably you mean 8.

Re: freebsd-update

2011-12-04 Thread RW
On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 11:06:29 +0100 Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > Why do I get a warning if I use freebsd-update about a renewal of my > FreeBSD installation within the next two months because after that > time it will nog be supported anymore? > I run FreeBSD-release-p4. Freebsd-update &

Re: freebsd-update

2011-12-04 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Op 4-12-2011 13:03, andrew clarke schreef: From what I understand, the focus is on releasing FreeBSD 9.0, and 8.3 will be released after that. But 9.0 is still in testing. Despite the message, I suspect security updates for 8.2 will still be issued for several months after 8.3 is released, to g

freebsd-update

2011-12-04 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Why do I get a warning if I use freebsd-update about a renewal of my FreeBSD installation within the next two months because after that time it will nog be supported anymore? I run FreeBSD-release-p4. Freebsd-update 'sees' p3. Is this

re: freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.0-RC2: incorrect hash error [SOLVED]

2011-11-21 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
ssage Subject: re: freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.0-RC2: incorrect hash error Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 20:57:50 +0200 From: Alexander Kapshuk To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org when performing a binary upgrade from 9.0-RC1 to 9.0-RC2 by following the instructions found here:

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