Dear FreeBSD savvies I am (still) struggling to understand how to keep my FreeBSD system up to date ("world"/system, not ports). I want to "track" RELEASE (not a development branch) and I want to receive security related updates. And I want to run a custom kernel.
>From what I understand I cannot use "freebsd-update" in this case because it will invariably either overwrite my custom kernel (if I have "Components kernel" in the config file) or not update the kernel sources in /usr/src/sys (when I do not have "Components kernel" in the config file). See [1]. This leaves me with the only possibility to use SVN to update /usr/src, right? I have a copy of the SVN sources (for the outdated RELEASE-9.0.0 but that's a different story), see below for "svn info"). As I understand [2] I cannot mix freebsd-update and SVN, right? So I can run "svn update" in /usr/src whenever I like. But what then? Do I need to rebuild the world and my custom kernel every time I run "svn update" (and there are some updates)? I'm on a low powered consumer device and it takes considerable amount of time to build the world and kernel (plus I still don't feel comfortable doing such tasks remotely). Is this really "the way to do it" or am I missing something? There are quite some posts, websites and threads out there (see [3] or [4] for example) about this topic but (surprisingly?) I could not (yet) find a conclusive answer. Any hints, help, tutorials or corrections would be greatly appreciated. Kind regards andreas [1] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2013-January/247763.html [2] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2013-April/250461.html [3] http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=26140 [4] http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=35555 ----- # svn info Path: . Working Copy Root Path: /usr/src URL: https://svn0.us-east.freebsd.org/base/release/9.0.0 Repository Root: https://svn0.us-east.freebsd.org/base Repository UUID: ccf9f872-aa2e-dd11-9fc8-001c23d0bc1f Revision: 248546 Node Kind: directory Schedule: normal Last Changed Author: kensmith Last Changed Rev: 229307 Last Changed Date: 2012-01-02 19:59:55 +0100 (Mon, 02 Jan 2012) ----- Ps.: Is there a way I can contact "someone" (Tom Rhodes?) about the outdated freebsd-update documentation (concerning the custom kernel handling) in the Handbook ("FreeBSD Update" [5])? [5] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"