On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 12:30:49PM -0600, Adam Weinberger wrote: > Hi, re team, > > The handbook instructions in ยง23.2 "FreeBSD Update" > (https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html) > have a number of instructions that appear to be incorrect. > > The instructions say repeatedly that a copy of the GENERIC kernel > should be kept in /boot/GENERIC, and that freebsd-update will then > keep it up-to-date. > > This does not appear to be correct. freebsd-update only keeps a > GENERIC kernel up-to-date if it is in /boot/kernel. Custom kernels > must be installed with a new name using INSTKERNNAME=, so that > /boot/kernel always remains GENERIC. > > If the instructions in that page are followed for 11.1 -> 11.2, for > example, a copy of the old kernel will be made to /boot/GENERIC, fail > to be updated by freebsd-update, and then "nextboot -k GENERIC" will > boot into an 11.1 kernel, instead of 11.2. > > Unless I'm missing something, those instructions really need to be > updated before someone shoots himself or herself in the foot with > them. >
This looks like a general documentation issue. If I recall correctly, the details in this document apply to 8.x and earlier, and 9.x and later use /boot/kernel. Maybe someone on docs@ could take a moment to look into this, or at least verify if my assumption is correct. Glen
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