From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 7 12:54:36 2010 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 AAA8D106566B for ; Sun, 7 Mar 2010 12:54:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kraduk@googlemail.com) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.152]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CD028FC19 for ; Sun, 7 Mar 2010 12:54:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 22so1511390fge.13 for ; Sun, 07 Mar 2010 04:54:35 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=dh/YxQrilLJOAboAIQemCzpfJiycChu78SaEYr2eSO8=; b=RQlL7TA9DL9I2jzJd8akgTbBA1VSvYWUqOqAItogv+JQigYWqZn/M0mPosUXGok7xz ziThbeNLqd+SsYGnFBNe5wC9pTpaQARA1GFpe42ApvHj3z7wQwvd4FkCeeP3H5PLPu0/ MmLMe6vToJkLy3Lk5b7SD2Jf7s/VJMYEMw7Vs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=brGXkSQBVxQHjX3rdHpeapTEVx/UNV5cBv5d4QGc96QlHf5C5JrAXoMzf4CvD3mJM1 b3jezV6CorCwoCSg06/KtlpRbGbhuejK2OoyvWSS6Vzud/hV929+tK/qqZczgYQ+SkfR oqBt0Hernd5nj2AXqvTem4fmSCXv0S1czTqx0= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.239.169.9 with SMTP id m9mr322603hbe.37.1267966474915; Sun, 07 Mar 2010 04:54:34 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 12:54:34 +0000 Message-ID: From: krad To: Dan Naumov Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-update on a 8.0 rootzfs system 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, 07 Mar 2010 12:54:36 -0000 On 7 March 2010 11:57, Dan Naumov wrote: > Hello folks > > I have a 8.0 system that uses zfsroot and gptzfsboot. It uses the > GENERIC kernel and the only thing that had to be manually recompiled > is obviously the bootloader, to enable zfs boot support, other then > that, the system is using stock 8.0 binaries. Since fully rebuilding > world and kernel on this system is a 5 hour process, I would very much > like to use freebsd-update and I wanted someone to clarify the > utility's behaviour. If I run freebsd-update on this system, what will > it do when it detects that the bootloader binaries do not match those > of stock 8.0-RELEASE? Will it: > > 1) Ignore the changed/recompiled bootloader files completely, only > updating the binaries whose checksums it can recognize. This behaviour > is alright for updating within 8.0, updating for release errata, but > would cause some problems updating to 8.1 and further, since 8.1 will > have zfs capable bootloader by default and having freebsd-update > always completely ignore a system component that has once been > recompiled sounds a bit silly. > > 2) Happily update the system, overwrite my custom compiled bootloader, > forcing me to manually rebuild the bootloader again before I reboot > the system. This I guess would actually be the desired behaviour. > > > - Sincerely, > Dan Naumov > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > why dont you just cron a make update, buildworld, and build kernel, every night, or week? You always have a system ready for installation whenever you want it, irrelevant how long it takes to build.