Re: Keeping FreeBSD with custom kernel up to date: freebsd-update no option?

2013-04-21 Thread andreas scherrer
Thank you, Polytropon. I have (as far as I can tell) successfully upgraded to 9.1-RELEASE-p2 now. For this I moved /usr/src (SVN) out of the way and followed the upgrade process described in 25.2.3.2 Performing the Upgrade in the Handbook [1]. on 17.4.13 22:55 Polytropon said the following: On

Re: Keeping FreeBSD with custom kernel up to date: freebsd-update no option?

2013-04-17 Thread Alexandre
Hi Andreas and Polytropon, In the case your are tracking -RELEASE branch, you can use freebsd-update tool to apply binary security patches on your system and upgrade versions (e.g. 9.0 to 9.1 or 9.x to 10.0 when available). Freebsd-update tool apply binary updates to your system and GENERIC

Re: Keeping FreeBSD with custom kernel up to date: freebsd-update no option?

2013-04-17 Thread andreas scherrer
Thank you very much for your detailed answer! on 16.4.13 22:18 Polytropon said the following: On Tue, 16 Apr 2013 21:38:16 +0200, andreas scherrer wrote: 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

Re: Keeping FreeBSD with custom kernel up to date: freebsd-update no option?

2013-04-17 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 17 Apr 2013 22:37:06 +0200, andreas scherrer wrote: For some reason I was under the impression that /usr/src/sys is not being updated by freebsd-update if I remove kernel from the Components directive in freebsd-update.conf. But I might be wrong (I will check). According to the

Keeping FreeBSD with custom kernel up to date: freebsd-update no option?

2013-04-16 Thread andreas scherrer
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

Re: Keeping FreeBSD with custom kernel up to date: freebsd-update no option?

2013-04-16 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 16 Apr 2013 21:38:16 +0200, andreas scherrer wrote: 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