From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 8 04:18:33 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1A1916A4CE for ; Fri, 8 Oct 2004 04:18:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail1.woosh.co.nz (mail1.woosh.co.nz [202.74.207.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CCDF43D45 for ; Fri, 8 Oct 2004 04:18:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from james@pole.net.nz) Received: from [192.168.1.253] (202-74-200-153.ue.woosh.co.nz [202.74.200.153]) by woosh.co.nz; Fri, 8 Oct 2004 17:18:32 +1300 In-Reply-To: <1097205696.14424.37.camel@whapper.home.whootis.com> References: <1097124983.4164cc7713dd5@www.whootis.net> <1097205696.14424.37.camel@whapper.home.whootis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <1A08F1AA-18E1-11D9-AA60-000D93341F5C@pole.net.nz> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: James Pole Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 17:18:26 +1300 To: Geoff Sweet X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kernel help X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 04:18:34 -0000 On 8/10/2004, at 4:21 PM, Geoff Sweet wrote: > Anyway now I want to make my changes to my GENERIC kernel so that I > don't have to do the world thing. So I already CVSup'ed the /usr/src > directory to 4.10, so that is bad for me. Can I whack the /usr/src > directory and use sysinstall to load on the /usr/src files? If I tell > it > to go get it from ftp.freebsd.org, is it going to retrieve the latest > (so 4.10) source or will it retrieve my default 4.9 source? I am > trying > to get a cd stuck in my box so that I can just do this off the CD, but > thier tech support is a bit slow... HA. Heya, The best thing for you to do is to just take the standard CVSup file from:- /usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile Then update the following line:- *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4_9 This should revert the source code to the 4.9 release -- and as a bonus all the security fixes for 4.9-RELEASE will be included as well. RELENG_4 will update you to the very latest code for FreeBSD 4.x-STABLE while RELENG_4_9 will update you to the latest patched code for 4.9-RELEASE. When you update your system will be FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p99 (where 99 is the patch level which shows how many patches has been applied to 4.9-RELEASE) instead of just plain FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE. You can verify this by running the `uname -a` command. Regards, James