--- ezjail-admin.orig	2012-12-23 22:55:29.000000000 +0100
+++ ezjail-admin	2012-12-23 22:57:44.000000000 +0100
@@ -980,10 +980,11 @@
   # Check for basejail when not installing base jail
   [ "${ezjail_basesystem}" -o -d "${ezjail_jailbase}" ] || exerr "Error: The basejail does not exist.\n  You cannot install distribution packages before creating ezjails environment.\n  Please run '${ezjail_admin} update' or '${ezjail_admin} install' using lower case parameters first."
 
+  ezjail_release=`uname -r`
+  ezjail_release_major=${ezjail_release%%.*}
+
   # ftp servers normally wont provide non-RELEASE-builds
   if [ -z "${ezjail_release}" -a "${ezjail_dir}" = "${ezjail_ftphost}" ]; then
-    ezjail_release=`uname -r`
-    ezjail_release_major=${ezjail_release%%.*}
     case ${ezjail_release} in *-STABLE) ezjail_release="${ezjail_release%-STABLE}-RELEASE";; esac
     if [ "${ezjail_release%-RELEASE}" = "${ezjail_release}" ]; then
       echo "Your system is ${ezjail_release}. Normally FTP-servers don't provide non-RELEASE-builds."
@@ -1000,7 +1001,6 @@
   # It is now a single archive ${pkg}.txz instead of a list of archive parts under ${pkg}/*
   # man pages come with the base
   # We assume for now that jail's platform is supposed to be that of the host. That may change later.
-  ezjail_release_major=${ezjail_release%%.*}
   if [ ${ezjail_release_major} -ge 9 -a -n "${ezjail_installmanpages}" ]; then
     echo "Note: From FreeBSD 9.0 man pages are part of the base package"
     unset ezjail_installmanpages