From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 10 01:39:24 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 5F37D106564A for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 01:39:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glen.j.barber@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yx0-f182.google.com (mail-yx0-f182.google.com [209.85.213.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 070CA8FC1D for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 01:39:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxm34 with SMTP id 34so648105yxm.13 for ; Wed, 09 Jun 2010 18:39:23 -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=2Saw7E/e/9gbA7kOasu4S8Q1vJzGbEAi8yEZ9QpEvMk=; b=G0lJahmv/dONSLG+u1u5/a88xjq8dvWTPKNT3/9vwSFV1/CBurZ4SDkrCWfPPrq4He CLPHATvI8Mb4n7uGkcXCqeSKAwxfZi7FDaul+JCtNi7sDXlAYK2drPppZIxXXrv7B62G qTcov3P0Gyxh09ktFyVQCNm2qapy+xIi1W6qs= 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=hg9ZM569zLXv75W/yoVQ8ZB/u5mL5oivHq+1AmO1En7uGIWaYeBVndKJzmTHZylvon CGQCDg6f4JIWcivvM2AjJq/Fxv7nkWuamHE/Rris2DDc3ghW8FrvijNRjLfEMEJNDyVf 881u3jaaqKaNZ5NkkrBmaAPPwzyy0u5LQsWrg= Received: by 10.229.70.196 with SMTP id e4mr7517764qcj.185.1276133962622; Wed, 09 Jun 2010 18:39:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from schism.local (c-71-230-240-241.hsd1.pa.comcast.net [71.230.240.241]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d6sm1319012vcp.44.2010.06.09.18.39.20 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 09 Jun 2010 18:39:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C104248.8070906@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 21:39:20 -0400 From: Glen Barber User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fbsd1 References: <4C103AE1.30305@comclark.com> <4C103B73.3050003@gmail.com> <4C103F3E.3000007@a1poweruser.com> In-Reply-To: <4C103F3E.3000007@a1poweruser.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-update upgrade 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: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 01:39:24 -0000 On 6/9/10 9:26 PM, Fbsd1 wrote: > Glen Barber wrote: >> On 6/9/10 9:07 PM, Aiza wrote: >>> The upgrade function requires the -r newrelease flag. >>> The manpage does not state the formate of the newrelease value. >>> >>> Is it just the release number like this 8.0 or is it like this >>> 8.0-RELEASE? >> >> 8.0-RELEASE. I believe you can pull 8.0-RELEASE-p2 using -r as well. >> >> Regards, >> > Thanks. > > Have another question. > > When freebsd-update first entered the ports system, it was limited to > updating systems that not been changed from the basic release. IE: > Recompiling the kernel adding devices or removing them. Is that still > true now? > If you have a custom kernel installed, freebsd-update will overwrite it with GENERIC, which means you will need to recompile your custom kernel. Regards, -- Glen Barber