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| author | Alexander Ziaee <ziaee@FreeBSD.org> | 2025-08-06 11:46:10 -0400 |
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| committer | Alexander Ziaee <ziaee@FreeBSD.org> | 2025-08-06 12:32:39 -0400 |
| commit | 9c215e77b29a7165fb2944118a69ab94e35357f0 (patch) | |
| tree | e076a0f1edd92fb116b7560e5a1cbdba921cc376 /bin | |
| parent | e63297e1b61e4104ee51e4ed3e170cc2ed24ce38 (diff) | |
freebsd-version.8: Add back freebsd-update paragraph
Someone may be working on making a pkg backend for freebsd-update
so we can keep it.
This reverts commit e9792345d36c96dbb49f3ee996f75384a4cca532.
Diffstat (limited to 'bin')
| -rw-r--r-- | bin/freebsd-version/freebsd-version.1 | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/bin/freebsd-version/freebsd-version.1 b/bin/freebsd-version/freebsd-version.1 index 27ed69b38bc5..82ea9c707d69 100644 --- a/bin/freebsd-version/freebsd-version.1 +++ b/bin/freebsd-version/freebsd-version.1 @@ -75,6 +75,14 @@ version, next the userland version, and finally the userland version of the specified jails, on separate lines. If neither is specified, it will print the userland version only. .Sh IMPLEMENTATION NOTES +The +.Nm +utility should provide the correct answer in the vast majority of +cases, including on systems kept up-to-date using +.Xr freebsd-update 8 , +which does not update the kernel version unless the kernel itself was +affected by the latest patch. +.Pp To determine the name (and hence the location) of a custom kernel, the .Nm utility will attempt to parse |