freebsd-update and more information
Dear all, I read man freebsd-update but it has not answered my questions. That is, after I have issued freebsd-update fetch/install, where can I find information about if the installed updates require recompiling the kernel or system restart? Thank you in advance! -- Zbigniew Szalbot www.LCWords.com smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: freebsd-update and more information
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Dear all, I read man freebsd-update but it has not answered my questions. That is, after I have issued freebsd-update fetch/install, where can I find information about if the installed updates require recompiling the kernel or system restart? Thank you in advance! Not all updates include kernel updates, some are just userland. If you are running a GENERIC, unomdified (from CD) kernel, this will be updated in the process. freebsd-update shows you a list of updated files, and will also show /boot/kernel/kernel if this is updated. You will also see source files in /usr/src/sys being updated on a kernel update. Since I always run custom kernels, I just watch for changes in /usr/src/sys. If there are updates there and you are running a custom kernel, you will have to recompile it. Otherwise you don't have to. The uname -a command will still report a previous -pversion until you recompile though. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: freebsd-update and more information
Hello again, Not all updates include kernel updates, some are just userland. If you are running a GENERIC, unomdified (from CD) kernel, this will be updated in the process. freebsd-update shows you a list of updated files, and will also show /boot/kernel/kernel if this is updated. You will also see source files in /usr/src/sys being updated on a kernel update. Since I always run custom kernels, I just watch for changes in /usr/src/sys. If there are updates there and you are running a custom kernel, you will have to recompile it. Otherwise you don't have to. The uname -a command will still report a previous -pversion until you recompile though. Thanks! How do you go from there? I assume it is not necessary to download sources since they have already been fetched by freebsd-update. I also run a custom kernel and I see modification date change in /usr/src/sys/netinet so that's likely to mean I need to recompile the kernel. Thank you again! -- Zbigniew Szalbot www.LCWords.com smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: freebsd-update and more information
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello again, Not all updates include kernel updates, some are just userland. If you are running a GENERIC, unomdified (from CD) kernel, this will be updated in the process. freebsd-update shows you a list of updated files, and will also show /boot/kernel/kernel if this is updated. You will also see source files in /usr/src/sys being updated on a kernel update. Since I always run custom kernels, I just watch for changes in /usr/src/sys. If there are updates there and you are running a custom kernel, you will have to recompile it. Otherwise you don't have to. The uname -a command will still report a previous -pversion until you recompile though. Thanks! How do you go from there? I assume it is not necessary to download sources since they have already been fetched by freebsd-update. Just guessing you updated to 7.0-RELEASE-p2? This actually has kernel updates in the TCP/IP code. True, you don't have to download sources, you already got them. I also run a custom kernel and I see modification date change in /usr/src/sys/netinet so that's likely to mean I need to recompile the kernel. Thank you again! Yes, you simply repeat your last kernel build/install/reboot procedure, i.e. something like: cd /usr/src make buildkernel installkernel KERNCONF=YOURKERNELNAME reboot and you are set! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: freebsd-update and more information
freebsd-update only updates the installed sources, not all sources. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: freebsd-update and more information
--On June 30, 2008 2:22:41 PM +0200 Zbigniew Szalbot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, I read man freebsd-update but it has not answered my questions. That is, after I have issued freebsd-update fetch/install, where can I find information about if the installed updates require recompiling the kernel or system restart? Thank you in advance! Maybe I'm confused, but I thought freebsd-update installed precompiled binaries of the generic kernel and world. Therefore, you would need to reboot if the kernel changed. Freebsd-update should tell you what will be changed after it finishes the fetch. I don't recall if it also tells you what it installed. Paul Schmehl If it isn't already obvious, my opinions are my own and not those of my employer.
Re: freebsd-update and more information
Paul Schmehl wrote: --On June 30, 2008 2:22:41 PM +0200 Zbigniew Szalbot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, I read man freebsd-update but it has not answered my questions. That is, after I have issued freebsd-update fetch/install, where can I find information about if the installed updates require recompiling the kernel or system restart? Thank you in advance! Maybe I'm confused, but I thought freebsd-update installed precompiled binaries of the generic kernel and world. True, but it also updates the relevant sources if installed (as another poster said, freebsd-update will only update what you have installed - I tend to always assume that everybody installs full sources, but that's just me) Therefore, you would need to reboot if the kernel changed. Freebsd-update should tell you what will be changed after it finishes the fetch. I don't recall if it also tells you what it installed. If it tells you it updated /boot/kernel/kernel, you should reboot. If you are running a custom kernel and you see files getting updated in /usr/src/sys (mind you, not just the /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh, but other files too - newvers.sh is always updated to reflect the new -p# in uname, if you rebuild your kernel) you should rebuild your custom kernel and reboot. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
