Re: freebsd-update patches custom /boot/kernel/kernel which it should not

2013-01-02 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On January 2, 2013 6:45:50 PM +0100 andreas scherrer ascher...@gmail.com wrote: Hi This can be considered a follow up to the message How to keep freebsd-update from trashing custom kernel? sent to this list by Brett Glass on August 13th 2012 (see [1]). Unfortunately there is no solution to

Re: freebsd-update patches custom /boot/kernel/kernel which it should not

2013-01-02 Thread Michael Sierchio
The confusion comes from the fact that the original behavior of freebsd-update was NOT to update the kernel binaries if a custom kernel was detected. FYI my /etc/freebsd-update.conf has # Components of the base system which should be kept updated. #Components src world kernel Components src

Re: freebsd-update patches custom /boot/kernel/kernel which it should not

2013-01-02 Thread andreas scherrer
on 2.1.13 19:15 Paul Schmehl said the following: --On January 2, 2013 6:45:50 PM +0100 andreas scherrer And from experience this is what it will do: replace /boot/kernel/kernel which is my custom kernel with a GENERIC kernel. As it seems that freebsd-update works by comparing a hash of

Re: freebsd-update patches custom /boot/kernel/kernel which it should not

2013-01-02 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 11:18 AM, andreas scherrer ascher...@gmail.comwrote: This is no longer true, though it was true at the time that was written... - However, freebsd-update will detect and update the GENERIC kernel in /boot/GENERIC (if it exists), even if it is not the current

Re: freebsd-update patches custom /boot/kernel/kernel which it should not

2013-01-02 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On January 2, 2013 8:18:38 PM +0100 andreas scherrer ascher...@gmail.com wrote: on 2.1.13 19:15 Paul Schmehl said the following: --On January 2, 2013 6:45:50 PM +0100 andreas scherrer And from experience this is what it will do: replace /boot/kernel/kernel which is my custom kernel with a

Re: freebsd-update patches custom /boot/kernel/kernel which it should not

2013-01-02 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On January 2, 2013 1:46:25 PM -0600 Paul Schmehl pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.com wrote: --On January 2, 2013 8:18:38 PM +0100 andreas scherrer ascher...@gmail.com wrote: on 2.1.13 19:15 Paul Schmehl said the following: --On January 2, 2013 6:45:50 PM +0100 andreas scherrer And from experience

Re: freebsd-update patches custom /boot/kernel/kernel which it should not

2013-01-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 02/01/2013 20:55, Paul Schmehl wrote: I wasn't thinking when I wrote this. Freebsd-update pulls *binary* copies of files, so you're not ever going to get the src files to rebuild your kernel from freebsd-update. You need to pull those in using svn. Not so. Take a look at