On 24.01.2013 15:46, Patrick M. Hausen wrote:
> 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.
I just tried (src only), from an 8.2 system:
# freebsd-update -r 8.3-RELEASE upgrade
# freebsd-update install
This gave me the same experience as you. The latest entry in UPDATING is
20120411:
8.3-RELEASE
(The good news is that it actually updated it from 8.2 to 8.3, so it did
not ignore it completely.) But all other files under the /usr/src/
hierarchy is properly updated. For instance:
# egrep '^(REVISION|BRANCH)' /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh
REVISION="8.3"
BRANCH="RELEASE-p5"
This gives me some confidence that I've got the important bits from -p5,
even though UPDATING remains at unpatched level. I guess there is some
bug or misconfiguration on the server side of freebsd-update that
ignores some files. I have no idea. ;-)
In short, I think you used the correct commands, and that it is
reasonable to expect the /usr/src/UPDATING file to be updated.
Regards,
Gyrd ^_^
>
> Thanks
> Patrick
>
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