On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 12:18:39AM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote: > In article <20120825041357.gd1...@glenbarber.us>, g...@freebsd.org writes: > >On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 04:55:48AM +0100, Ben Morrow wrote: > >> 1. Is is sensible|supported to use freebsd-update to update just the src > >> component, followed by a normal buildworld/buildkernel to update the > >> rest of the system? I would much prefer to avoid having to use svn, > >> especially given that it isn't in the base system. > > >No. freebsd-update(8) is a binary system updater. It does not touch > >your source tree. > > It works just fine for that, actually -- PROVIDED that you installed > the source tree the same way (from original installation media or with > a previous freebsd-update invocation). >
He asked "followed by buildworld/buildkernel." This implies customization, as did the second question. > I don't know what it will do if you've modified the sources. On the > machines where I do this, I don't touch the sources. > I do. It will overwrite them. Glen
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