Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 13:57:40 +0400 From: c0re <nr1c0re@gmail.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-update with non-GENERIC kerrnel Message-ID: <AANLkTilNDBIkWgz0e5PvvEfTHlChsHOwHPseuXXuYkA9@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20100601094506.GA25207@twoquid.cs.ru.nl> References: <20100601094506.GA25207@twoquid.cs.ru.nl>
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freebsd-update made for only GENERIC kerndel due to binary diff patches.
After you rebuild world and kernel you'll be not able to apply binary
patches.
2010/6/1 Olaf Seibert <O.Seibert@cs.ru.nl>
> I find the way freebsd-update handles a system that runs a non-GENERIC
> kernel less than helpful.
>
> It is doing this:
>
> | fourquid.3:~$ sudo freebsd-update upgrade -r 8.1-BETA1
> | Password:
> | Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found.
> | Fetching metadata signature for 8.0-RELEASE from update5.FreeBSD.org...
> done.
> | Fetching metadata index... done.
> | Fetching 2 metadata patches.. done.
> | Applying metadata patches... done.
> | Inspecting system... done.
> |
> | WARNING: This system is running a "fourquid" kernel, which is not a
> | kernel configuration distributed as part of FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE.
> | This kernel will not be updated: you MUST update the kernel manually
> | before running "/usr/sbin/freebsd-update install".
> |
> | The following components of FreeBSD seem to be installed:
> | src/base src/bin src/cddl src/contrib src/crypto src/etc src/games
> | src/gnu src/include src/krb5 src/lib src/libexec src/release src/rescue
> | src/sbin src/secure src/share src/sys src/tools src/ubin src/usbin
> | world/base world/catpages world/dict world/doc world/games world/info
> | world/lib32 world/manpages world/proflibs
> |
> | The following components of FreeBSD do not seem to be installed:
> | kernel/generic
> |
> | Does this look reasonable (y/n)? n
>
> I do have the kernel sources installed, so I would like to have them
> updated. I don't even mind to have a GENERIC kernel temporarily
> installed, until I compile my own (fortunately, they are not that
> different).
>
> It is nice that it tells me that I "MUST update the kernel manually",
> but it gives me no help in getting the sources and doing that. (Can the
> new kernel even be built in all cases with old tools? NetBSD offers a
> nice cross-building system for that.)
>
> For my previous update to 8.0-RELEASE-p2 I patched freebsd-update simply
> to think that my kernel *is* GENERIC,
>
> --- /usr/sbin/freebsd-update 2009-12-22 17:16:01.000000000 +0100
> +++ /tmp/freebsd-update 2010-05-11 10:35:05.000000000 +0200
> @@ -631,6 +631,7 @@
> # we're running an SMP kernel. This mis-identification is a bug
> # which was fixed in 6.2-STABLE.
> KERNCONF=`uname -i`
> + KERNCONF=GENERIC
> if [ ${KERNCONF} = "SMP-GENERIC" ]; then
> KERNCONF=SMP
> fi
>
> but that seems riskier as updates get a bit bigger.
>
> The official way seems to be to reboot using GENERIC, upgrade (with a
> reboot with new GENERIC), rebuild new CUSTOM kernel, reboot again. At
> least the first reboot ought to be avoided...
>
> -Olaf.
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