On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:52:17 -0500, Mark Felder wrote: > On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:34:30 -0500, Steve O'Hara-Smith > <st...@sohara.org> wrote: > >> You have updated to 9.1-RELEASE-p2 - but since there have been no >> kernel changes since 9.1-RELEASE the kernel version message hasn't >> changed. >> This could very reasonably be regarded as bug in the update/version >> reporting process but I wouldn't hold my breath for a fix, as things >> stand the version reported only changes when the kernel is updated, or >> if you recompile it after the update. > > It would be nice if the version of the OS itself was stored in something > like /etc/freebsd-version so you know what the version of the OS as a > whole is. I'd even accept some sort of output by freebsd-update. It just > seems silly that there's no other way -- kern.osrelease is just the base > release and kern.version is the same thing that uname -a outputs. It's > hard to pick this up and monitor it accurately.
I think I agree with this. It's somewhat confusing for a novice like me. Thanks to all for the helpful replies. _______________________________________________ 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"
