On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 03:26:22PM +0100, Roberto Nunnari wrote: > > Ceri Davies wrote: > > > >On 12 Jan 2006, at 12:32, Roberto Nunnari wrote: > > > >>Hello. > >> > >>Please also answer to my mailbox as I'm not on the list. > >> > >>After upgrading by sources and build world, uname correctly > >>reports the current version of the system > >> > >>Today for the first time I applied all the relevant patches > >>instead and all went well. The box was 5.3-RELEASE-p23. > >> > >>The applied patches should correspond to 5.3-RELEASE-p24, but: > >> > >># uname -r > >>5.3-RELEASE-p23 > >> > >>and: > >> > >># sysctl kern.version > >>kern.version: FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p23 #0: Tue Jan 3 15:40:08 CET 2006 > >>... > >> > >>I'd like to be able to see the correct version using > >>'uname -r'.. > >> > >>Does anybody know how can you make uname report the > >>real version? What if you recompile the kernel after > >>patching the system? Would that do the trick? > > > > > >Recompiling the kernel is the correct way to change the output of > >uname(1), but before you do so, you should be aware that that patch > >number is taken from the BRANCH variable in src/sys/conf/newvers.sh. > >Check that it says "5.3-RELEASE-p24" before you waste time recompiling > >the kernel. > > > >Ceri > > Thank you Ceri and Jaap for your time. > > Ceri, edit src/sys/conf/newvers.sh and replace > > BRANCH="RELEASE-p23" > with > BRANCH="RELEASE-p24" > > would be enough??
That would work, but if you don't already have that string then there is a possibility that you don't have all the patches, so please only change it if you are %100 sure that you have. I cannot stress that enough. Ceri -- Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -- Einstein (attrib.)
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