Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 15:08:03 +0200 From: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> To: rea-fbsd@codelabs.ru Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Paul Stewart <paul@paulstewart.org> Subject: Re: 7.1 to 7.2 upgrade question Message-ID: <4A018BB3.80302@quip.cz> In-Reply-To: <feRBOLeCC4DE0%2BO6pd2QFS36sVs@AbNt2aYVonA6XSQc9As8EVwIk24> References: <000001c9cd85$afe53b70$0fafb250$@org> <87ljpbwi5v.fsf@kobe.laptop> <747dc8f30905051255j79b11662v716c2456c01d2b8a@mail.gmail.com> <feRBOLeCC4DE0%2BO6pd2QFS36sVs@AbNt2aYVonA6XSQc9As8EVwIk24>
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Eygene Ryabinkin wrote: > Renato, [...] >>I don't know if it's officially supported, but I did an hybrid upgrade >>using freebsd-update for the base and building the custom kernel >>from sources, it worked fine and is still much faster than build >>everything. > > > In principle, you can run into some errors, like KVM size mismatches > (and other ABI changes) if your kernel (that you build from sources) and > updated base will differ. But you'll immediately notice it ;)) And for > most cases such way should work fine. Just a question: How can kernel be different, if it is build from the same sources (7.2-RELEASE)? freebsd-update updates the sources too (if old sources are installed in /usr/src), or am I wrong? Miroslav Lachman
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