On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:05:04 +0200, Polytropon wrote: > 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.
Thanks for the reply, but I'm still confused. -------------------------------------- # freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.1-RELEASE-p2 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. The following components of FreeBSD seem to be installed: kernel/generic src/src world/base world/lib32 The following components of FreeBSD do not seem to be installed: world/doc world/games Does this look reasonable (y/n)? y Fetching metadata signature for 9.1-RELEASE-p2 from update5.freebsd.org... failed. Fetching metadata signature for 9.1-RELEASE-p2 from update4.freebsd.org... failed. Fetching metadata signature for 9.1-RELEASE-p2 from update3.freebsd.org... failed. No mirrors remaining, giving up -------------------------------------- Where am I going wrong? _______________________________________________ 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"
