From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 20 16:16:27 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 13818374 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2013 16:16:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from phlegethon.blisses.org (phlegethon.blisses.org [50.56.97.101]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E9E5A2689 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2013 16:16:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from blisses.org (cocytus.blisses.org [23.25.209.73]) by phlegethon.blisses.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 027431489A4; Wed, 20 Nov 2013 11:16:23 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 11:16:24 -0500 From: Mason Loring Bliss To: Shane Ambler Subject: Re: Kernel build error (9.2 on 9.1 userland) Message-ID: <20131120161623.GU13289@blisses.org> References: <20131119200931.GE13289@blisses.org> <528C6123.1010304@ShaneWare.Biz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <528C6123.1010304@ShaneWare.Biz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.16 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 16:16:27 -0000 On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 05:43:39PM +1030, Shane Ambler wrote: > The config for freebsd-update is in /etc/freebsd-update.conf The Compenents > part determines what is updated and src is one available component. Ah, I hadn't noticed this despite a brief glace in freebsd-update.conf. Thank you. > Normally freebsd-update will install minor updates to the installed system. > You can use "freebsd-update -r 9.2-RELEASE upgrade" to upgrade to new > release versions. Can it bring me to 10 now, by chance? > Chapter 23.2 of the FreeBSD Handbook offers more detail. I'll read it; thank you. > A good way to identify your running system - uname -a The issue there was that it was identifying my kernel, but since I'd botched my source tree updates, that didn't necessarily match my userland. It might be nice if there was something like Debian's /etc/issue to identify the userland version. > As for getting your source - stable/9 contains updates and features being > tested for next release Ah, so stable/9 will be 9.3. Makes sense. Thank you for the detail - you've answered everything I was wondering about in satisfying depth. -- Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.