Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:10:16 +0300 From: Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr@gmail.com> To: Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Using freebsd-update after upgrading from source Message-ID: <4868CD28.3080508@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080630080600.GA37177@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> References: <20080630080600.GA37177@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru>
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Victor Sudakov wrote: > Colleagues, > > I have been updating 6.2-RELEASE with freebsd-update. Recently I > upgraded it to RELENG_6_3 from source. Can I continue using > freebsd-update or must I upgrade only from source from now on? > > I don't see why not. freebsd-update will download binary updates to the system as well as the relevant sources for them (look at /etc/freebsd-update.conf to verify). > I conducted an experiment and got inconclusive results. I had upgraded > to RELENG_6_3-p2 where the problems with libpthread and ssh are > already fixed. However, when I ran freebsd-update, it did replace > libpthread and libssh. It also replaced the kernel, downgrading it > from 6.3-RELEASE-p2 to 6.3-RELEASE-p1! > Don't be so sure. If you are running a GENERIC kernel, freebsd-update simply downloaded the latest. If -p2 did not have any kernel updates (it did not IIRC) you got the kernel for -p1. The fact it replaced your GENERIC (which had a -p2 deisgnation in uname) is probably because this was compiled on your system so freebsd-update did not recognize the version. These two should be functionally identical. In fact if you just recompile the kernel now, it will report -p2 (but this is only a cosmetic change, if the kernel sources have not been changed by freebsd-update). Have a look at this file: /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh look at the "BRANCH" if it says "RELEASE-p2" this is what you will get if you recompile the kernel.
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