FreeBDS update question

M

mefizto

Greetings all,

I seem to have a problem, or misunderstanding about update
Code: 
uneme -a
FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE-p7 GENERIC amd64
freebsd-update fetch
. . .
No updates needed to update system to 12.2-RELEASE-p10

If I am running p7 and the latest is p10, why does the system not update?

Kindest regards,

M


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Hi,

world and kernel have a separated patch level: uname might show p7 for the kernel while your world might currently be p10 (the gap between p7 and p10 implies that world had 3 security issues that didn't affect the kernel). So, if your world is already in p10 (see freebsd-version -u, don't use uname for world), there is nothing to upgrade.

What's the output of freebsd-version -ruk?
 
uname -a gives you the running kernel version not your patch level, not every patch updates the kernel. if you check your version with freebsd-version you will see 12.2-RELEASE-p10 meaning your patch level is p10. And if you check with "freebsd-version -k" you will see 12.2-RELEASE-p7 which is your running kernel
 
Hi julp,dd_ff_bb,

thank you for your explanation, I have learnt something new today.

Code: 
freeb-version -ruk
12.2-RELEASE-p7
12.2-RELEASE-p7
12.2-RELEASE-p10

Kindest regards,

M
 
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