On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 03:31:25PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote:
> I realize that sysinstall is deprecated in favor of the new installer, but
> the new installer doesn't have the ability to install binary packages.
> Until and unless there's a convenient menu-based installer for binary
> packages, woul
Yes, uname -v will work. Unfortunately, it has an annoying side effect. If one
tries
to use the "sysinstall" program to install binary packages, it will fail when
a system patched by freebsd-update tries to access the FTP server, because the
FTP
server doesn't know about patch levels.
One must
Hello Roberto,
In fact "uname -a" report patch level BUT if you update your system by
freebsd-update, patch level could be an old one.
As discuss here http://forums.freebsd.org/archive/index.php/t-20154.html
Regards
Cedric
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just a try on the server:
--
% uname -a
FreeBSD .y 9.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Jan 3 07:46:30 UTC
2012 r...@farrell.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
%
--
and with the update command:
--
# freebsd-update fetch
...
No u
Hi all,
You can find the current patch level in /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh ex:
TYPE="FreeBSD"
REVISION="8.3"
BRANCH="RELEASE-p4"
uname -v on the same server:
FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE #0: Mon Apr 9 21:23:18 UTC 2012
r...@mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
If I read the handbook
>> Hi all,
>> I would like to know if there is a command or a way to retrieve the "patch
>> level" (the handbook defines it "builds names" like 7.0-RELEASE-p1) of the
>> running system: just an example, if I run:
>> # freebsd-update fetch
>> No updates needed to update system to 9.0-RELEASE-p4
>> o
Hi,
As I can remember
# uname -a
provides this information.
Regards,
Karoly
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>
> Hi all,
> I would like to know if there is a command or a way to retrieve the "patch
> level" (the handbook defines it "builds names" like 7.0-RELEASE-p1) of the
> running system: just an example, if I run:
>
> # freebsd
Hi all,
I would like to know if there is a command or a way to retrieve the "patch
level" (the handbook defines it "builds names" like 7.0-RELEASE-p1) of the
running system: just an example, if I run:
# freebsd-update fetch
...
No updates needed to update system to 9.0-RELEASE-p4
or:
...
The fo
