From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 12 20:11:40 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 439A616A402 for ; Sun, 12 Mar 2006 20:11:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd4mo2so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8620943D5E for ; Sun, 12 Mar 2006 20:11:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd2mr1so.prod.shaw.ca (pd2mr1so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.110]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IW100GLT6R454C0@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 12 Mar 2006 13:11:28 -0700 (MST) Received: from pn2ml8so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.152]) by pd2mr1so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IW100LO66R48KF0@pd2mr1so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 12 Mar 2006 13:11:28 -0700 (MST) Received: from [192.168.0.60] ([24.82.18.31]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IW10001H6R4J8C0@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 12 Mar 2006 13:11:28 -0700 (MST) Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 12:11:00 -0800 From: Colin Percival In-reply-to: To: Kenneth Bond Message-id: <44148054.2000804@freebsd.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 References: User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060112) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 - SMP Generic Kernels via freebsd-update X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 20:11:40 -0000 Kenneth Bond wrote: > I am trying to confirm whether or not Generic SMP kernels for > FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE are offered via freebsd-update, as they > were with 5.3-RELEASE, 5.4-RELEASE, etc. > > Basically does the procedure described at the URL below work > for the 6.0-RELEASE? > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-security/2005-June/002975.html Yes. Starting with 6.1-RELEASE, this sort of ugly hack should be unnecessary, since SMP kernels are going to be distributed as part of the release. Colin Percival