Hi, all, Am 24.01.2013 um 15:20 schrieb Gyrd Thane Lange <[email protected]>: > It is not a well publicized fact, but I understand that the base utility > freebsd-update(8) through it's freebsd-update.conf(5) is able to pull the > base sources (/usr/src/) only instead of also updating your binaries. > > less /etc/freebsd-update.conf > > # Components of the base system which should be kept updated. > Components src world kernel > > The above setting is the default, but you may easily leave out everything but > "src". (Caveat: I have not tried it myself yet.) > It also have some optional settings for preserving local changes to the > source instead of blowing them away (default). > > This will allow you to use the sources for a custom build and install > yourself.
I tried that and found that at least /usr/src/UPDATING was not touched by freebsd-update. See <[email protected]> on this list. Any hints welcome - must have been doing someting wrong. Thanks Patrick -- punkt.de GmbH * Kaiserallee 13a * 76133 Karlsruhe Tel. 0721 9109 0 * Fax 0721 9109 100 [email protected] http://www.punkt.de Gf: Jürgen Egeling AG Mannheim 108285 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
