Solved updating to 10.1-RELEASE-p7 from p6

denrad

denrad

Received notification this afternoon from freebsd-update cron indicating it had downloaded files to update to 10.1-RELEASE-p7 (from 10.1-RELEASE-p6)

Executed freebsd-update install and rebooted

uname -a still reports FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE-p6 #0

Did a rollback and tried again... same result

Tunning freebsd-update fetch now returns the following...
Code: 
No updates needed to update system to 10.1-RELEASE-p7.
 
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Hi,

Starting with FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE I believe you can use the freebsd-version(1) utility to get the real version and patch level of installed kernel and userland. uname(1) will only report the patch level of the kernel so if only parts of userland were updated, it will still show the previous patch level even though the update succeeded.
 
Very helpful. Quick question: if the updates are only in userland, is a reboot required? I didn't see any daemons among the updates.
 
I'm not exactly sure to be honest, sorry. Unless your uptime is critical however, I would take the safe road and reboot the machine anyway just to be sure. I'm sure one of the more seasoned users will most likely have a better/more specific answer than that for you than I do though. :)
 
No, that's fine. I see there are some new ssl libraries, and those are probably important.

I don't have an uptime fetish. Done!
 
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