On Thu 2012-05-03 19:17:05 UTC+0200, Leslie Jensen (les...@eskk.nu) wrote: > After a reboot my system now has the following label > > FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p3 #0 > > How come it downgrades the label from p6 to p3 when upgrading to p7.
This is a FAQ. There's a thread about it here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2010-June/217031.html Short answer: The patch level (-p3) displayed by uname -r after a reboot will not change if freebsd-update has not touched the kernel. As far as I know there haven't been any patches to the 8.2-REL kernel since -p3. /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh is always updated by freebsd-update when there is an update. (Although now that I think about it that might not be true if you don't have the kernel sources installed?) Not exactly intuitive. Several Linux distros have a file named /etc/issue that shows the distro name and version. Perhaps this or something similar could be provided in future FreeBSD releases and updated by freebsd-update. $ cat /etc/issue Ubuntu 12.04 LTS \n \l Regards Andrew _______________________________________________ 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"
