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From: Louis Epstein <le@lekno.ws>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Version Report Discrepancies (uname -a and freebsd-version)
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2025 21:04:02 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
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Louis Epstein <le@lekno.ws> wrote:
> Why are there occasional discrepancies in what is reported as the
> running version?
> 
> After a recent upgrade I get 13.4-RELEASE-p1 as response to uname -a
> but 13.4-RELEASE-p2 as response to freebsd-version .
> 
> When the upgrade completed I was told -p1 was installed,

This repeats at every login

> when I ran freebsd-update fetch I was told no updates
> were available or needed to run -p2.
> 
> Do some patches only register with some programs and not others?
> 
> -=-=-
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