On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 04:47:48AM +0200, Melanie Schulte wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> >I disagree that there is a problem, however, since users building a
> >custom kernel should _not_ use freebsd-update(8) for kernel
> >upgrades.
> 
> Could you please elaborate on that? I have also built my own kernel on
> my servers and I must have missed the section in the handbook saying
> that running a custom kernel implies that freebsd-update should not be
> used.
> 
> Given a security problem, I don't want to spend hours recompiling my
> base system whereas freebsd-update fixed the problem in seconds.
> 

freebsd-update(8) _always_ installs GENERIC.

Glen

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