Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:53:02 +0300 From: Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr@gmail.com> To: Zbigniew Szalbot <z.szalbot@lc-words.com> Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: freebsd-update and more information Message-ID: <4868D72E.8040802@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4868D60F.1030607@lc-words.com> References: <4868D011.3080100@lc-words.com> <4868D2C2.8030409@gmail.com> <4868D60F.1030607@lc-words.com>
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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 >> -p<version> 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!
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