From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 30 12:53:07 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 927CF106567C for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:53:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sonic2000gr@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.173]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CD628FC18 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:53:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sonic2000gr@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id q2so235554uge.37 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:53:06 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=C8OSYfFLJalvrsjHlCxVGng8LQiCrCv3in3jD/sqLEo=; b=YBryNCkacCNcIUodPstavjMUWMHmrHstuJOE1bvVLik4JZoHqonkN443NMNEZd1mow k+qrxupojNvo8uujqiIfCxUh5DCSLaLAcCygnCFde+fJaJKijlmt9PWWVFBEQQjbJ1Zp /85fKOt/nIZkmExlD0i76AVRUffZ3+3OjmFFs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Hci2ByW59xrL/bERkxWubUZw69t4RNtt1ec1BZifeJTiITm30zhjG3FHf6asVqlw6H usf90vyEDun9+NqHSyBJHfXiIr0H4e0WZ+rbmUcHi8hhifqZL6I3Z1C5gulxVpXCy25Z llx8pdGh+OGm2YUzXiU2tXC99AMuk1SMKH/Zc= Received: by 10.210.30.1 with SMTP id d1mr4140195ebd.108.1214830386416; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:53:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from atlantis.dyndns.org ( [85.72.90.75]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 31sm213810nfu.9.2008.06.30.05.53.04 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:53:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4868D72E.8040802@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:53:02 +0300 From: Manolis Kiagias User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080607) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Zbigniew Szalbot References: <4868D011.3080100@lc-words.com> <4868D2C2.8030409@gmail.com> <4868D60F.1030607@lc-words.com> In-Reply-To: <4868D60F.1030607@lc-words.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: User Questions Subject: Re: freebsd-update and more information 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: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:53:07 -0000 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 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!