The cause for this confusion is the fact that patches 5 and 6 were for a
userland utility (file) and a library (libarchive), not for the kernel.
So for these patches, the kernel (which contains the release-level
string) isn't rebuilt and so it isn't updated.
1) change the update mechanism to update the kernel(s) version string
Roland,
thank you very much for the information.
Digging a little deeper, I discovered two sysctl variables that
contain this information:
kern.osrelease: 6.2-RELEASE-p4
kern.version: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p4 #0: Thu Apr 26 17:40:53 UTC 2007
And the sysctl(8) man page reveals:
Name Type Changeable
kern.osrelease string no
kern.version string no
meaning that it is probably impossible to change these values without
indeed recompiling the kernel.
Regards,
--
Nino
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