Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 17:13:55 +0400 From: Eygene Ryabinkin <rea-fbsd@codelabs.ru> To: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Paul Stewart <paul@paulstewart.org> Subject: Re: 7.1 to 7.2 upgrade question Message-ID: <lA78B/o3xDVDvhx1sFIVQtW4ZOI@AbNt2aYVonA6XSQc9As8EVwIk24> In-Reply-To: <4A018BB3.80302@quip.cz> References: <000001c9cd85$afe53b70$0fafb250$@org> <87ljpbwi5v.fsf@kobe.laptop> <747dc8f30905051255j79b11662v716c2456c01d2b8a@mail.gmail.com> <feRBOLeCC4DE0%2BO6pd2QFS36sVs@AbNt2aYVonA6XSQc9As8EVwIk24> <4A018BB3.80302@quip.cz>
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Wed, May 06, 2009 at 03:08:03PM +0200, Miroslav Lachman wrote:
> Eygene Ryabinkin wrote:
> > 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?
If you are really checking out 7.2-RELEASE, then no, they can't be
different. But you could checkout 7-STABLE and thus kernel might
diverge from the world.
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Eygene
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