Re: freebsd-update problems

2012-01-07 Thread Aristedes Maniatis
On 7/01/12 9:17 PM, Gianni Vialetto wrote: 2012/1/7 Aristedes Maniatis: [...] 1. I am clearly running 8.2-p5, but the final message says "no updates needed". That's clearly not correct since p5< p8. And running uname again after this results in still seeing p5. That's not really true. Unless

Re: freebsd-update problems

2012-01-07 Thread Gianni Vialetto
2012/1/7 Aristedes Maniatis : > [...] > 1. I am clearly running 8.2-p5, but the final message says "no updates > needed". That's clearly not correct since p5 < p8. And running uname again > after this results in still seeing p5. That's not really true. Unless an update upgrades the kernel, the res

Re: freebsd-update problems

2012-01-07 Thread Vrachnis Ilias-Dimitrios
On 01/07/2012 09:14, Aristedes Maniatis wrote: [...] 2. I didn't touch mergemaster.mtree manually. Well, I don't think I did. But even if I had, could the tool give me some clue as to how to proceed from here? Do I now have to go back to csup to update my system and never be able to use freebsd

freebsd-update problems

2012-01-06 Thread Aristedes Maniatis
Freebsd-update is both an excellent tool, but also sadly lacking in some ways, mostly documentation. Let's look at a recent experience... - # uname -a FreeBSD splash.internal 8.1-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE-p5 #0: Tue Sep 27 16:49:00 UTC 2011 r...@amd64-builder.daemono