Re: 8.2-RELEASE-p4

2011-11-20 Thread Tom Carpenter
ownload the source, ran 'freebsd-update fetch' and 'freebsd-update install' to update the source, then compiled a new kernel using the GENERIC config file, rebooted, and now 'uname -a' output shows the '-p4' version number, but I was trying to avoid compiling ker

Re: 8.2-RELEASE-p4

2011-11-18 Thread Tom Carpenter
11/18/2011 03:50 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 18/11/2011 20:12, Tom Carpenter wrote: Is it not possible/not intended for kernels to be updated via freebsd-update? If kernels can be updated via freebsd-update will there be a release of an fix/update that will allow systems to be patched/updated to -

Re: 8.2-RELEASE-p4

2011-11-18 Thread Tom Carpenter
Is it not possible/not intended for kernels to be updated via freebsd-update? If kernels can be updated via freebsd-update will there be a release of an fix/update that will allow systems to be patched/updated to -p4 or later? -Tom Carpenter On 11/14/2011 05:25 AM, Evalyn wrote: It touches

Re: 8.2-RELEASE-p4

2011-11-14 Thread Tom Carpenter
Do you anticipate the release of an fix/update that will allow systems to be patched to -p4 or later via freebsd-update? -Tom Carpenter On 11/14/2011 05:25 AM, Evalyn wrote: It touches the kernel but you need to do make builkernel/make installkernel before uname -a shows "8.2-RELEA

8.2-RELEASE-p4

2011-11-11 Thread Tom Carpenter
ease name to explicitly match what's available on ftp.freebsd.org (or set to "any"). Would you like to select another FTP server? = That message will go away if I edit `8.2-RELEASE-p3' to read `8.2-RELEASE' but I'm not sure if that's the appropriate solutio