WARNING: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE-p3 is approaching its End-of-Life date.

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chillybsd

uname -a shows I'm on 9.0-RELEASE-p3 and -p4 is mentioned below saying no updated needed to -p4. How do I know what version I have installed? It seems uname says one thing and freebsd-update shows another. Again, see below.

What do I have to do in order to get my system completely up to date? Thanks!

Code: 
4:18:05 ~ #>freebsd-update fetch
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found.
Fetching metadata signature for 9.0-RELEASE from update5.FreeBSD.org... done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Inspecting system... done.
Preparing to download files... done.

No updates needed to update system to 9.0-RELEASE-p4.

WARNING: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE-p3 is approaching its End-of-Life date.
It is strongly recommended that you upgrade to a newer
release within the next 2 months.
4:18:39 ~ #>freebsd-update install
No updates are available to install.
Run '/usr/sbin/freebsd-update fetch' first.
 
chillybsd said:
uname -a shows i'm on 9.0-RELEASE-p3 and -p4 is mentioned below saying no updated needed to -p4. how do i know what version i have installed?
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It already told you what version you're running, FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE-p3, it's telling you that it will be End-Of-Life in 2 months. If nothing else FreeBSD 9.1 will surely be out by then.

You can also run:

$ dmesg

and it will tell you at the top of the output what version you're running.
 
Apparently, I am in the same situation. According to "uname -a" and "dmesg" I am on 9.0-RELEASE-p3.

However, freebsd-update tells me that no updates are required to update to 9.0-RELEASE-p4. Something doesn't seem to be right here, any suggestions?
 
wrs said:
uname -a shows the kernel patch level, and -p4 was unrelated to the kernel so your kernel is -p3 but userland is likely already -p4 as freebsd-update suggests.

thanks to blakkheim on ##freebsd freenode for pointing this out to me
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Ok, understood and thank you!

Is the combination -p3 kernel (generic kernel, AMD64) and -p4 userland the expected and current configuration?
 
recluce said:
Is the combination -p3 kernel (generic kernel, AMD64) and -p4 userland the expected and current configuration?
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Yes, if you want to see the '-p4' just rebuild your kernel.
 
Is it normal to EOL a FreeBSD release version two months after a new one comes out? I'd think a couple previous generations still keep receiving security patches for some time...
 
The release schedule shows that the 9.1 RELEASE build is scheduled for the 9th and the release announcement for the 12th. Even if it's a bit late it'll certainly be out before 9.0 is retired.
 
Don't worry about it, if the release slips so will the EoL of 9.0.
 
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